Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic

Patterson, Douglas

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“…2 Of course, this is a somewhat anachronistic way of putting things, and skips a great deal of detail. For a historically accurate discussion, see Patterson (2012).…”

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The Concept of Truth

Glanzberg¹

2013

A Companion to Donald Davidson

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Davidson discussed the concept of truth consistently throughout his career. It is central to the early Davidson (1967), and to the late Davidson (2005a). His views on the subject are not absolutely static. At one point, he endorses a version of the correspondence theory of truth, and he comes to emphatically reject that view later. At one point he calls his view a coherence theory of truth, and he later comes to doubt that characterization. Even so, over the period of nearly 40 years that he wrestled with questions about the nature of truth, Davidson is remarkably consistent. Certain points appear early in his thinking and remain constant: Tarski's work on truth is fundamental to understanding the concept, as is the relation of truth to meaning, and we fail to understand that connection adequately unless we take into account the constraints of radical interpretation. Furthermore, in understanding those connections, we see that truth is not a redundant or trivial concept, but equally it is not a locus for metaphysical commitments. Actually, I shall suggest that a stronger conclusion about these points is in order. Not only are they stable points of Davidson's view; they are his view. By his later writings, it becomes clear that we understand the concept of truth through these features of it, and we should not hope for a more direct definition of the concept. This essay will review Davidson's main work on truth, more or less in chronological order. It will focus on the ways the connections between truth, meaning, and

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“…2 Of course, this is a somewhat anachronistic way of putting things, and skips a great deal of detail. For a historically accurate discussion, see Patterson (2012).…”

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The Concept of Truth

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2013

A Companion to Donald Davidson

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“…For discussion, seePatterson (2012). For Tarski a language does not only specify the vocabulary but also contains axioms and rules.…”

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“…We merely highlight the relevant aspects of his account. Details are given in Halbach (2014, chap. 3) and Patterson (2012).…”

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Axiomatizing Semantic Theories of Truth?

Fischer

Halbach

Kriener

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The Review of Symbolic Logic

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We discuss the interplay between the axiomatic and the semantic approach to truth. Often, semantic constructions have guided the development of axiomatic theories and certain axiomatic theories have been claimed to capture a semantic construction. We ask under which conditions an axiomatic theory captures a semantic construction. After discussing some potential criteria, we focus on the criterion of N-categoricity and discuss its usefulness and limits.

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On a system–environment relationship in scientific inquiry: A response to ‘Definition of System’ by A. D. Hall and R. E. Fagen

Kasianiuk

2020

Syst Res Behav Sci

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In one of early accounts of system-environment relationship, A. D. Hall and R. E. Fagen presented a thesis that specification of environment could be as difficult as specification of system. However, since that moment, many researchers have not put similar emphasis on specification of environment as they have put on specification of system. In this article, it is argued that system and environment should be understood either as 'parts' or 'aspects' of nature, which translates into two qualities of their relationship-'interactivity' and 'transactivity'. Moreover, the quality of system-environment relationship influences modelling and explanatory strategies within scientific inquiry.

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Alfred Tarski: Philosophy of Language and Logic

Cited by 19 publications

References 54 publications

The Concept of Truth

The Concept of Truth

Axiomatizing Semantic Theories of Truth?

On a system–environment relationship in scientific inquiry: A response to ‘Definition of System’ by A. D. Hall and R. E. Fagen

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