Is the T-scheme true?

Howard Sankey

doi:10.5007/1808-1711.2025.e100985

Is the T-scheme true?

Authors

Howard Sankey The University of Melbourne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5168-150X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2025.e100985

Keywords:

T-scheme, Analyticity

Abstract

The T-scheme is: 'P' is true iff P. In this note I ask the question whether the T-scheme is true. Strictly speaking, the T-scheme itself is not true, though specific instances of the T-scheme are true. In particular, it is argued that the T-scheme is analytically true in both the epistemic and the metaphysical senses of analyticity.

References

Boghossian, Paul. 1996. Analyticity Reconsidered. Nous 30(3): 360-391.

Tarski, Alfred. 1972. The Semantic Conception of Truth. In: L. Linsky (ed.), Semantics and the Philosophy of Language, p. 13-49. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.