 Peter Strawson’s  views on truth emerge most fully in his 1950 debate with  J.L. Austin.  In keeping with deflationary position \(\mathbf{B}\), Strawson (1950, 145–7) maintains that an utterance of ‘It is true that \(p\)’ just makes the same statement as an utterance of ‘\(p\)’. However, in Strawson 1949 and 1950, he further endorses a performative view, according to which an utterance of a sentence like ‘That is true’ mainly functions to do something beyond mere re-assertion. This represents a shift to an account of what the expression ‘true’ does, from traditional accounts of what truth is, or even accounts of what ‘true’ means.