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Ideas for 'That Politics may be reduced to a Science', 'The Semantic Conception of Truth' and 'A world of truthmakers?'

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3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth
We need an undefined term 'true' in the meta-language, specified by axioms [Tarski]
     Full Idea: We have to include the term 'true', or some other semantic term, in the list of undefined terms of the meta-language, and to express fundamental properties of the notion of truth in a series of axioms.
     From: Alfred Tarski (The Semantic Conception of Truth [1944], 10)
     A reaction: It sounds as if Tarski semantic theory gives truth for the object language, but then an axiomatic theory of truth is also needed for the metalanguage. Halbch and Horsten seem to want an axiomatic theory in the object language.