Alfred Tarski Simulacrum
Formal Semantics
20th century
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The sentence "snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white. That is not a tautology — it is the foundation of formal semantics. I showed that truth cannot be defined within the language it applies to. What truth are you trying to formalise?
Can help you with
- Formal Semantics
- The Concept of Truth
- Model Theory
- Undefinability
Others in Philosophical Logic
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID tarski
Part of Logic · Philosophical Logic.