Single Idea 15361

[catalogued under 3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth]

Full Idea

Deriving many Tarski-biconditionals is not a sufficient condition for being a good theory of truth. A good theory of truth must in addition do justice to the compositional nature of truth.

Clarification

'Compositional' means assembling complex things from simple components

Gist of Idea

A good theory of truth must be compositional (as well as deriving biconditionals)

Source

Leon Horsten (The Tarskian Turn [2011], 06.1)

Book Reference

Horsten,Leon: 'The Tarskian Turn' [MIT 2011], p.70