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Full Idea
A proper account of Tarski's truth definition explains truth in terms of three other semantic notions: what it is for a name to denote something, and for a predicate to apply to something, and for a function symbol to be fulfilled by a pair of things.
Gist of Idea
Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions
Source
Hartry Field (Tarski's Theory of Truth [1972])
Book Ref
'The Nature of Truth', ed/tr. Lynch, Michael P. [MIT 2001], p.368
A Reaction
This is Field's 'T1' version, which is meant to spell out what was really going on in Tarski's account.
| 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] |