Single Idea 10818

[catalogued under 3. Truth / F. Semantic Truth / 1. Tarski's Truth / a. Tarski's truth definition]

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.

Gist of Idea

Tarski really explained truth in terms of denoting, predicating and satisfied functions

Source

Hartry Field (Tarski's Theory of Truth [1972])

Book Reference

'The Nature of Truth', ed/tr. Lynch, Michael P. [MIT 2001], p.368


A Reaction

This is Field's 'T1' version, which is meant to spell out what was really going on in Tarski's account.