TY - BOOK ID - 11124021 TI - Truth and its nature (if any) PY - 1999 SN - 0792358651 9048152801 9401592330 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer DB - UniCat KW - Truth KW - Language and languages—Philosophy. KW - Epistemology. KW - Logic. KW - Semantics. KW - Modern philosophy. KW - Philosophy of Language. KW - Modern Philosophy. KW - Modern philosophy KW - Formal semantics KW - Semasiology KW - Semiology (Semantics) KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Information theory KW - Language and languages KW - Lexicology KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Argumentation KW - Deduction (Logic) KW - Deductive logic KW - Dialectic (Logic) KW - Logic, Deductive KW - Intellect KW - Philosophy KW - Psychology KW - Science KW - Reasoning KW - Thought and thinking KW - Epistemology KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Methodology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11124021 AB - The question how to turn the principles implicitly governing the concept of truth into an explicit definition (or explication) of the concept hence coalesced with the question how to get a finite grip on the infinity of T-sentences. Tarski's famous and ingenious move was to introduce a new concept, satisfaction, which could be, on the one hand, recursively defined, and which, on the other hand, straightforwardly yielded an explication of truth. A surprising 'by-product' of Tarski's effort to bring truth under control was the breathtaking finding that truth is in a precisely defined sense ineffable, that no non trivial language can contain a truth-predicate which would be adequate for the very 4 language . This implied that truth (and consequently semantic concepts to which truth appeared to be reducible) proved itself to be strangely 'language-dependent': we can have a concept of truth-in-L for any language L, but we cannot have a concept of truth applicable to every language. In a sense, this means, as Quine (1969, p. 68) put it, that truth belongs to "transcendental metaphysics", and Tarski's 'scientific' investigations seem to lead us back towards a surprising proximity of some more traditional philosophical views on truth. 3. TARSKI'S THEORY AS A PARADIGM So far Tarski himself. Subsequent philosophers then had to find out what his considerations of the concept of truth really mean and what are their consequences; and this now seems to be an almost interminable task. ER -