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The Prosentential Theory of Truth (PSTT) was first put forward in Grover, Camp, and Belnap (1975).1 The leading idea of the theory is that the forms “it is true” and “that is true” function as (molecular) prosentences in ordinary English — a form of words that stand to sentences as pronouns stand to nouns — and that our ordinary (non-philosophical) concept of truth is to be understood in terms of these expressions. Other uses of “true” are to be understood by assimilating them to its use as a prosentence.
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Wilson, W.K. (1990). Some Reflections on the Prosentential Theory of Truth. In: Dunn, J.M., Gupta, A. (eds) Truth or Consequences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0681-5_2
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