DEFLATIONISM, CONCEPTUAL EXPLANATION, AND THE TRUTH ASYMMETRY.

Ascriptions of truth give rise to an explanatory asymmetry. For instance, we accept '<Rex is barking> is true because Rex is barking' but reject 'Rex is barking because <Rex is barking> is true'. Benjamin Schnieder and other philosophers have recently proposed a fresh explanation of this asymmetry: they have suggested that the asymmetry has a conceptual rather than a metaphysical source. The main business of this paper is to assess this proposal, both on its own terms and as an option for deflationists. I offer a pair of objections to the proposal and defend them from counter-objections. To conclude, I discuss how else to explain the asymmetry, and set out the implications for deflationism and correspondence theories of truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]