Overview
- Offers a new interpretation on the classic work by Tarski, that examines the original piece well as its subsequent translations
- Includes commentary on how mistranslations or omissions have influenced the interpretation of Tarski’s work
- Presents the three versions of the classic article in parallel
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 39)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Concept of True Sentence in Languages of Finite Order
- Concept of True Sentence in Languages of Infinite Order
- Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen
- Formal theories of truth
- Metatheory vs. metascience
- Object languages and metalanguages
- Pojecie prawdy w jezykach nauk dedukcyjnych
- Tarski and intuition
- Tarski's Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics
About this book
This book provides a detailed commentary on the classic monograph by Alfred Tarski, and offers a reinterpretation and retranslation of the work using the original Polish text and the English and German translations. In the original work, Tarski presents a method for constructing definitions of truth for classical, quantificational formal languages. Furthermore, using the defined notion of truth, he demonstrates that it is possible to provide intuitively adequate definitions of the semantic notions of definability and denotation and that the notion in a structure can be defined in a way that is analogous to that used to define truth. Tarski’s piece is considered to be one of the major contributions to logic, semantics, and epistemology in the 20th century. However, the author points out that some mistakes were introduced into the text when it was translated into German in 1935. As the 1956 English version of the work was translated from the German text, those discrepancies werecarried over in addition to new mistakes. The author has painstakingly compared the three texts, sentence-by-sentence, highlighting the inaccurate translations, offering explanations as to how they came about, and commenting on how they have influenced the content and suggesting a correct interpretation of certain passages. Furthermore, the author thoroughly examines Tarski’s article, offering interpretations and comments on the work.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alfred Tarski and the "Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
Book Subtitle: A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation
Authors: Monika Gruber
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32616-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32614-6Published: 12 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81329-5Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32616-0Published: 02 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 42 b/w illustrations
Topics: Epistemology, History of Philosophy, Logic