DIE IDEE HINTER TARSKIS DEFINITION VON WAHRHEIT

Author: GREIMANN D.

Source: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Volume 28, Number 1, 1997 , pp. 121-158(38)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

The Idea behind Tarski's Definition of Truth. In Tarski's presentations of his truth-definition, the steps of the construction are not sufficiently explained. It is not clear, on what general strategy the construction is based, what the fundamen tal ideas are, how some crucial steps work, and especially how the transition from the definition of satisfaction to the definition of truth should be understood. The paper shows that the account given in the model-theoretic literature, which is supported by Tarski's lemmata A and B, is unsatisfactory, because Tarski's notion of truth can't be interpreted as `truth independent of the assignment of values to the variables'. Moreover, a satisfactory account of all the crucial steps is given.

Keywords: concept of truth; satisfaction; satisfaction-schemata; definition; principle of compositionality; sequence

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Institut für Philosophie, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München

Publication date: 1997-01-01