Full Idea
Truth in a model is interesting because it provides a transparent and mathematically tractable model - in the 'ordinary' rather than formal sense of the term 'model' - of the less tractable notion of truth.
Gist of Idea
Truth in a model is more tractable than the general notion of truth
Source
Harold Hodes (Logicism and Ontological Commits. of Arithmetic [1984], p.131)
Book Reference
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.131
A Reaction
This is an important warning to those who wish to build their entire account of truth on Tarski's rigorously formal account of the term. Personally I think we should start by deciding whether 'true' can refer to the mental state of a dog. I say it can.
Related Ideas
Idea 10170 While true-in-a-model seems relative, true-in-all-models seems not to be [Reck/Price]
Idea 13634 Satisfaction is 'truth in a model', which is a model of 'truth' [Shapiro]