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Tarského definice pojmu pravdy a její kritika

Title in English Tarski's Definition of the Notion of Truth and Its Critique
Authors

ŠTĚPÁNEK Jan

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Pro-Fil
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://www.phil.muni.cz/journals/index.php/profil/article/view/15
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/pf11-1-15
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords Alfred Tarski; definition of truth; truth; semantics; liar paradox; metalanguage; object language; T-schema; convention T; satisfaction
Description This paper aims to describe and examine Alfred Tarski's famous semantic conception of truth as well as some of the critiques presented against it. The first part of this paper is divided into five segments: criteria imposed upon every adequate definition of truth are discussed in the first segment; the second is dedicated to Tarski’s Convention T; distinction between object language and metalanguage, as well as Tarski’s attitude toward formalized and colloquial languages, is described in the third segment; fourth segment is devoted to Tarski’s definition of truth using the notion of “satisfaction”; the last segment is the evaluation of Tarski’s solution of paradoxes. In the second part of this paper the selected objections against Tarski’s conception are presented with emphasis on their diversity.

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