Alfred Tarski and the "Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages" A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation

Alfred Tarski and the "Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages" A Running Commentary with Consideration of the Polish Original and the German Translation / by Monika Gruber.

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...

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Main Author: Gruber, Monika (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 39
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Epistemology.
Philosophy.
Logic.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Remarks on the objective of the dissertation
  • Chapter 2. Remarks on the construction and the content of the dissertation
  • Chapter 3. The text versions used in the present dissertation
  • Chapter 4. General terminological questions and translational issues
  • Chapter 5. Intuition
  • Chapter 6. Materially adequate and formally correct definition
  • Chapter 7. Sentence vs. Statement
  • Chapter 8. Quantification
  • Chapter 9. Consistency
  • Chapter 10. Articles
  • Chapter 11. Metatheory vs. metascience
  • Part 2. Commentary
  • Chapter 12. Introduction
  • Chapter 13. The Concept of True Sentence in Everyday or Colloquial Language
  • Chapter 14. Formalized Languages, especially the Language of the Calculus of Classes
  • Chapter 15. The Concept of True Sentence in the Language of the Calculus of Classes
  • Chapter 16. The Concept of True Sentence in Languages of Finite Order
  • Chapter 17. The Concept of True Sentence in Languages of Infinite Order
  • Chapter 18. Summary
  • Chapter 19. Postscript
  • Conclusion.

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