NATURALISM AND SEMANTIC FACTS. ON PAUL HORWICHS SEMANTIC DEFLATIONISM (Nataralizm a fakty semantyczne. Rozwazania nad semantycznym deflacjonizmem Paula Horwicha)

The article consist of three parts, in which the authoress analyses Paul Horwich's semantic deflationism as an example of naturalistic theory of language. In the first introductory part, she introduces the basic theses of the theory of truth and theory of meaning given by Horwich. In the second, she proposes terminological solutions concerning naturalism and reductionism. In the third substantial part, she presents some objections to the postulated reductionist consequences of Horwich's theory that can be found in the literature. She claims that his theory is in fact naturalistic, but not reductionist in a way described by Horwich's opponents. In the last part, she discusses the problem of normativity in the context of the presented theory, pointing out that some of Horwich's proposals are insufficient and need to be supplemented.