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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Analogy of Religion' and 'Representation and Reality'

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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 2. Semantic Truth

2345	Semantic notions do not occur in Tarski's definitions, but assessing their correctness involves translation [Putnam]
	Full Idea: Although no semantic notions are used in Tarski's truth definitions themselves, they are used in deciding when such a definition is correct, namely the notion of translation.
	From: Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], §4 p.66)

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 1. Redundant Truth

2347	Asserting the truth of an indexical statement is not the same as uttering the statement [Putnam]
	Full Idea: If you say "I am going to drive this car", and I say "That's true", that is very different from my saying "I am going to drive this car".
	From: Hilary Putnam (Representation and Reality [1988], §4 p.68)