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3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition
Tarski reduced truth to reference or denotation [Field,H, by Hart,WD]
     Full Idea: Tarski can be viewed as having reduced truth to reference or denotation.
     From: report of Hartry Field (Tarski's Theory of Truth [1972]) by William D. Hart - The Evolution of Logic 4
Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions [Field,H]
     Full Idea: A proper account of Tarski's truth definition explains truth in terms of three other semantic notions: what it is for a name to denote something, and for a predicate to apply to something, and for a function symbol to be fulfilled by a pair of things.
     From: Hartry Field (Tarski's Theory of Truth [1972])
     A reaction: This is Field's 'T1' version, which is meant to spell out what was really going on in Tarski's account.
3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / b. Satisfaction and truth
Tarski just reduced truth to some other undefined semantic notions [Field,H]
     Full Idea: It is normally claimed that Tarski defined truth using no undefined semantic terms, but I argue that he reduced the notion of truth to certain other semantic notions, but did not in any way explicate these other notions.
     From: Hartry Field (Tarski's Theory of Truth [1972], §0)