TY - JOUR AU - Kangilaski, Jaan PY - 2008/08/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A Modest Minimalism? JF - Studia Philosophica Estonica JA - SPE VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/spe.2008.1.2.02 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/spe.2008.1.2.02 SP - 169-178 AB - <p>My aim in this paper is to present and evaluate one version of the deflationary attitude to truth, namely the Modest Account, propounded by Wolfgang Künne in his <em>Conceptions of Truth</em> (2003). I introduce the deflationary theories of truth in the first part of my paper and present briefly the views of a more familiar deflationist, Paul Horwich, as a "stepping-stone" to Künne’s account. In the second part of the paper I give an overview of Künne's theory and in the final part I present a dilemma that his account faces: either it is not modest after all or it is incomprehensible.</p> ER -