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Full Idea
The definition of truth will have to be, Tarski argues, relative to a language, for one and the same sentence may be true in one language, and false or meaningless in another.
Clarification
Tarski was a famous Polish logician (fl. c. 1944)
Gist of Idea
The same sentence could be true in one language and meaningless in another, so truth is language-relative
Source
Susan Haack (Philosophy of Logics [1978], 7.5)
Book Ref
Haack,Susan: 'Philosophy of Logics' [CUP 1980], p.103
2570 | The same sentence could be true in one language and meaningless in another, so truth is language-relative [Haack] |
2572 | Logical truth seems much less likely to 'correspond to the facts' than factual truth does [Haack] |