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Full Idea
It is normally claimed that Tarski defined truth using no undefined semantic terms, but I argue that he reduced the notion of truth to certain other semantic notions, but did not in any way explicate these other notions.
Gist of Idea
Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions
Source
Hartry Field (Tarski's Theory of Truth [1972], §0)
Book Ref
'The Nature of Truth', ed/tr. Lynch, Michael P. [MIT 2001], p.365
| 13499 | Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD] |
| 10818 | Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H] |
| 7615 | Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Field,H, by Putnam] |
| 10817 | Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H] |
| 10819 | Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model [Field,H] |
| 10820 | In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific [Field,H] |
| 10825 | The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others [Field,H] |
| 10826 | 'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism [Field,H] |
| 10827 | Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers [Field,H] |