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Single Idea 15346

[from 'The Tarskian Turn' by Leon Horsten, in 3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth ]

Full Idea

The axiomatic approach to truth does not suffer from the regress problem.

Gist of Idea

Axiomatic approaches to truth avoid the regress problem of semantic theories

Source

Leon Horsten (The Tarskian Turn [2011], 02.3)

Book Reference

Horsten,Leon: 'The Tarskian Turn' [MIT 2011], p.21


A Reaction

See Idea 15345 for the regress problem. The difficulty then seems to be that axiomatic approaches lack expressive power, so the hunt is on for a set of axioms which will do a decent job. Fun work, if you can cope with it.

Related Idea

Idea 15345 Semantic theories have a regress problem in describing truth in the languages for the models [Horsten]