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DIE IDEE HINTER TARSKIS DEFINITION VON WAHRHEIT

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The Idea behind Tarski's Definition of Truth. In Tarski's presentations of his truth-definition, the steps of the construction are not sufficiently explained. It is not clear, on what general strategy the construction is based, what the fundamental ideas are, how some crucial steps work, and especially how the transition from the definition of satisfaction to the definition of truth should be understood. The paper shows that the account given in the model-theoretic literature, which is supported by Tarski's lemmata A and B, is unsatisfactory, because Tarski's notion of truth can't be interpreted as ‘truth independent of the assignment of values to the variables’. Moreover, a satisfactory account of all the crucial steps is given.

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GREIMANN, D. DIE IDEE HINTER TARSKIS DEFINITION VON WAHRHEIT. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 28, 121–158 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017917902860

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