A report on Truth and Alfred Tarski
His biographers Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman state that, "Along with his contemporary, Kurt Gödel, he changed the face of logic in the twentieth century, especially through his work on the concept of truth and the theory of models."
- Alfred TarskiAmong the philosophers who grappled with this problem is Alfred Tarski, whose semantic theory is summarized further on.
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Deflationary theory of truth
1 linksIn philosophy and logic, a deflationary theory of truth (also semantic deflationism or simply deflationism) is one of a family of theories that all have in common the claim that assertions of predicate truth of a statement do not attribute a property called "truth" to such a statement.
Some years before Strawson developed his account of the sentences which include the truth-predicate as performative utterances, Alfred Tarski had developed his so-called semantic theory of truth.
Semantic theory of truth
1 linksA semantic theory of truth is a theory of truth in the philosophy of language which holds that truth is a property of sentences.
The semantic conception of truth, which is related in different ways to both the correspondence and deflationary conceptions, is due to work by Polish logician Alfred Tarski.
Karl Popper
0 linksAustrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator.
Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician Alfred Tarski and published in 1933.
The theory met critical objections to truth as correspondence and thereby rehabilitated it.