In what Sense is Tarski's Semantic Conception of Truth Semantic?

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In what Sense is Tarski's Semantic Conception of Truth Semantic?
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A view is widely held among semanticists and informed philosophers that Tarski co-founded formal semantics by showing us how to construct truth definitions for 1st order languages, thereby providing the very first formal semantics. However, several critics - J. Etchemendy, H. Putnam and S. Soames among others - argued that this view is based on a confusion. This chapter aims to show in what respect they are right, while arguing that we should not buy their claims to the effect that Tarski's method of truth definition has no semantic import. Having introduced the essential conceptual and technical underpinnings of Tarski's method, we argue that when various aspects of Tarski's method are distinguished and properly understood, its contribution to semantics dwells in the fact that recursive definitions can be formalized as axiomatic truth-theories with semantic terms as theoretical primitives, which shed light on the compositional structure of a language for which they are formulated.
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<a href="/en/project/GAP401%2F10%2F0146" target="_blank" >GAP401/10/0146: Man as a normative creature</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2010
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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