AAP 2026 CONFERENCE

I develop a two-part theory of truth according to which the truth of a sentence requires more than just the world being as the sentence says it is. Truth requires this kind of correspondence, and also something further - what I call `Steadiness'. My proposal builds on the legacy of Bradwardine, Buridan, and Swyneshed, who proposed two-part accounts of truth. Like many theories of truth, mine is forged in the fires of paradox. In this talk, I will outline how my account of truth works, how it ties into the debates about paradoxes, discuss some of its implications for logic and semantics, and suggest avenues for further development of the proposal.