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'Truth, Meaning, Reality' presents a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge and reality. Horwich's story begins with his minimalist view of truth which paves the way to an account of meaning as use. The 14 essays constitute a coherent and complete expression of this philosophy. What is truth? -- Varieties of deflationism -- A defense of minimalism -- The value of truth -- A minimalist critique of Tarski -- Kripke's paradox of meaning -- Regularities, rules, meanings, truth conditions, and epistemic norms -- Semantics: what's truth got to do with it? -- The motive power of evaluative concepts -- Ungrounded reason -- The nature of paradox -- A world without 'isms' -- The quest for reality -- Being and truth -- Provenance of chapters. Paul Horwich. Includes bibliographical references and index.