Full Idea
In a sense, satisfaction is the notion of 'truth in a model', and (as Hodes 1984 elegantly puts it) 'truth in a model' is a model of 'truth'.
Gist of Idea
Satisfaction is 'truth in a model', which is a model of 'truth'
Source
Stewart Shapiro (Foundations without Foundationalism [1991], 1.1)
Book Reference
Shapiro,Stewart: 'Foundations without Foundationalism' [OUP 1991], p.6
A Reaction
So we can say that Tarski doesn't offer a definition of truth itself, but replaces it with a 'model' of truth.
Related Ideas
Idea 10017 Truth in a model is more tractable than the general notion of truth [Hodes]
Idea 10170 While true-in-a-model seems relative, true-in-all-models seems not to be [Reck/Price]