Abstract
This chapter focuses on the distinction between contemporary theories of truth and more traditional truth theories. Within the contemporary theories, another distinction is drawn between semantic and axiomatic approaches. Arguments for the axiomatic approach are presented here, with the aim of proving that it should be preferred over the semantic approach. A history of truth theories and the debates accompanying them are used as a launching pad to discuss more contemporary theories. In the past, the philosophical debate about truth was dominated by deep and substantial theories of truth, but no attempt is made in this chapter to do justice to the complexity of these theories. Their utility lies in merely providing a contrasting background against which deflationist views about truth are formulated.
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