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1 online resource (443 pages) |
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Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Tarski and his Polish Predecessors on Truth; 3 Polish Axiomatics and its Truth: On Tarski's Lesniewskian Background and the Ajdukiewicz Connection; 4 Tarski's Conceptual Analysis of Semantical Notions; 5 Tarski's Theory of Definition; 6 Tarski's Convention T and the Concept of Truth; 7 Tarski's Conception of Meaning; 8 Tarski, Neurath, and Kokoszynska on the Semantic Conception of Truth; 9 Tarski's Nominalism; 10 Truth, Meaning, and Translation; 11 Reflections on Consequence; 12 Tarski's Thesis |
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13 Are There Model-Theoretic Logical Truths that are not Logically True?14 Truth on a Tight Budget: Tarski and Nominalism; 15 Alternative Logics and the Role of Truth in the Interpretation of Languages; Index |
| Summary |
This volume shows the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). An international group of scholars examine the historical context of Tarski's work, his philosophical development, and his influence on philosophy of language and logic. - ;Tarski and Philosophy aims to show the way to a proper understanding of the philosophical legacy of the great logician, mathematician, and philosopher Alfred Tarski (1902-1983). The contributors are an international group of scholars, some expert in the historical b |
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Print version record |
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Tarski, Alfred
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| SUBJECT |
Tarski, Alfred, 1901-1983 fast |
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Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- Philosophy
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Mathematics -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191559075 |
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0191559075 |
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