Ideas from 'Tarski's Theory of Truth' by Hartry Field [1972], by Theme Structure
[found in 'The Nature of Truth' (ed/tr Lynch, Michael P.) [MIT 2001,0-262-62145-2]].
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 4. Uses of Truth
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The notion of truth is to help us make use of the utterances of others
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 9. Rejecting Truth
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In the early 1930s many philosophers thought truth was not scientific
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
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Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Hart,WD]
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Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions
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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth
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Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions
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5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 2. Formal Truth
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Tarski gives us the account of truth needed to build a group of true sentences in a model
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5. Theory of Logic / J. Model Theory in Logic / 1. Logical Models
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Model theory is unusual in restricting the range of the quantifiers
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17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 2. Reduction of Mind
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'Valence' and 'gene' had to be reduced to show their compatibility with physicalism
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
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Field says reference is a causal physical relation between mental states and objects [Putnam]
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