TY - JOUR AU - Vision, Gerald PY - 2008/08/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - 'Indeed,''Really,''In Fact,''Actually' JF - Studia Philosophica Estonica JA - SPE VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/spe.2008.1.1.03 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/spe.2008.1.1.03 SP - 43-75 AB - <p>Interjections, such as those in the title, together with a few similar devices, when qualifying clauses expressing truth-conditions, or that such conditions have been satisfied, are entitled 'force-amplifiers'. Disputes between deflationary and inflationary truth-theories sometimes are assumed to turn on the supposed pivotal role that these devices are construed as playing in the interpretation of the clauses they qualify. I argue that they are not dispensable add-ons. Moreover, even in their absence the relevant clauses giving truth-conditions permit interpretations that are not deflationary-friendly. I maintain that this is a significant fact about the use to which writers put them. I then defend, a thesis about force-amplifiers that makes them indispensable to the interpretation of the relevant clauses, and that renders certain moves unavailable to popular deflationist treatments.</p> ER -