Full Idea
Semantics as it is conceived in this paper is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions to being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real.
Gist of Idea
Semantics is a very modest discipline which solves no real problems
Source
Alfred Tarski (The Semantic Conception of Truth [1944], 05)
Book Reference
'Semantics and the Philosophy of Language', ed/tr. Linsky,Leonard [University of Illinois 1972], p.17
A Reaction
Written in 1944. This remark encourages the minimal or deflationary interpretation of his theory of truth, but see the robust use of 'satisfaction' in Idea 19184.