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- Offers a historical and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski
- Examines the aspects of formal-logical and philosophical
- Explains Tarksi's motivation and presents discussions about his ideas
Part of the book series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (LEUS, volume 45)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous very soon and inspired logicians and philosophers. It has two different, but interconnected aspects: formal-logical and philosophical. The book deals with both, but it is intended mostly as a philosophical monograph. It explains Tarski’s motivation and presents discussions about his ideas (pro and contra) as well as points out various applications of the semantic theory of truth to philosophical problems (truth-criteria, realism and anti-realism, future contingents or the concept of correspondence between language and reality).
Keywords
- Semantic Theory of Truth
- Semantics and Logic
- Modern Mathematical Logic
- Concept of Satisfaction
- Carnap’s Idea of Explication
- Explicandum
- Explicans
- Transforming Philosophy into Science
- Mathematical Axiomatic Theory of Probability
- Truth in Ancient Philosophy
- German Philosophers on the Correspondence Formula
- Truth in 19th and 20th Century
- Tasks of Truth-Theories
- Propositional calculus: semantics
- How to Define Logic?
- Semantic Terminology
- Antinomies, Logical Types and Syntactic Categories
- Semantic Theory of Truth – Informal Aspects
- Formal Aspects of STT
- Tarski on Truth
Authors and Affiliations
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Jagiellonian University (prof. emeritus), Kraków, Poland
Jan Woleński
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Semantics and Truth
Authors: Jan Woleński
Series Title: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24536-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24535-1Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24538-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24536-8Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2214-9775
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9783
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 375
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Logic, Semantics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations