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Single Idea 10353

[filed under theme 3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition ]

Full Idea

According to the Tarskians we separate out truths from falsehoods by tracing the relations between members of different sets.

Gist of Idea

Tarskians distinguish truth from falsehood by relations between members of sets

Source

Martin Kusch (Knowledge by Agreement [2002], Ch.16)

Book Ref

Kusch,Martin: 'Knowledge by Agreement' [OUP 2004], p.229

Related Idea

Idea 18951 For scientific purposes there is a precise concept of 'true-in-L', using set theory [Putnam]


The 28 ideas from Martin Kusch

Vindicating testimony is an expression of individualism [Kusch]
Testimony does not just transmit knowledge between individuals - it actually generates knowledge [Kusch]
Communitarian Epistemology says 'knowledge' is a social status granted to groups of people [Kusch]
Some want to reduce testimony to foundations of perceptions, memories and inferences [Kusch]
Testimony won't reduce to perception, if perception depends on social concepts and categories [Kusch]
Omniscience is incoherent, since knowledge is a social concept [Kusch]
Testimony is reliable if it coheres with evidence for a belief, and with other beliefs [Kusch]
A foundation is what is intelligible, hence from a rational source, and tending towards truth [Kusch]
Communitarianism in epistemology sees the community as the primary knower [Kusch]
Testimony is an area in which epistemology meets ethics [Kusch]
Powerless people are assumed to be unreliable, even about their own lives [Kusch]
Myths about lonely genius are based on epistemological individualism [Kusch]
We can have knowledge without belief, if others credit us with knowledge [Kusch]
Foundations seem utterly private, even from oneself at a later time [Kusch]
Justification depends on the audience and one's social role [Kusch]
The coherentist restricts the space of reasons to the realm of beliefs [Kusch]
Individualistic coherentism lacks access to all of my beliefs, or critical judgement of my assessment [Kusch]
Process reliabilism has been called 'virtue epistemology', resting on perception, memory, reason [Kusch]
Our experience may be conceptual, but surely not the world itself? [Kusch]
Individual coherentism cannot generate the necessary normativity [Kusch]
Cultures decide causal routes, and they can be critically assessed [Kusch]
Natural kinds are social institutions [Kusch]
Private justification is justification to imagined other people [Kusch]
To be considered 'an individual' is performed by a society [Kusch]
Tarskians distinguish truth from falsehood by relations between members of sets [Kusch]
Correspondence could be with other beliefs, rather than external facts [Kusch]
Often socialising people is the only way to persuade them [Kusch]
Methodological Solipsism assumes all ideas could be derived from one mind [Kusch]