| Stuart E. Rosenbaum - 2003 - 338 páginas
...Tarski, which consists of rendering any declarative sentence in the form of a tautology, for example, "'snow is white' is true if and only if snow is white." The proposition thus satisfies its own truth conditions simply by virtue of its logical structures.... | |
| David M. Wolf MA, David M. Wolf - 2003 - 217 páginas
...more and no less about truth than Aristotle said. He provided this simple equivalence: The sentence, "Snow is white" is true if, and only if snow is white. Okay, you knew that for sure already. What you may not have known is that, according to Semantics,... | |
| Scott Soames - 2005 - 508 páginas
...English. Davidson thinks that he can expose this idea as incoherent. We recognize sentences like ' "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white' to be trivially true. Yet the totality of such English sentences uniquely determines the extension... | |
| Paul Horwich - 2005 - 190 páginas
...singular virtues. First, it explains perfectly well why we are so convinced thai the proposition that snow is white is true if and only if snow is white, and similarly for most other propositions; and this is not such an easy matter to explain on the basis... | |
| Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman - 2004 - 442 páginas
...true seems to say no more than the assertion itself. A frequently cited example due to Tarski is: (*) "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white. A variant of (*) starts by singling out the sentence (1) Snow is white. Then another way of expressing... | |
| Elizabeth A. Clark - 2004 - 340 páginas
...a statement referring to the "real world" could be shown to be true (for example, "The belief that snow is white is true if and only if snow is white"). But problems arise: if it is a "fact" that snow is white, then we need to know what facts are, and... | |
| I. Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen, Jan Wolenski - 2004 - 1074 páginas
...Disquotationalism Truth, according to Quine, is disquotation. This, he says, "is explicit in Tarski's paradigm: 'Snow is white' is true if and only if snow is white. Quotation marks all the difference between talking about words and talking about snow. The quotation... | |
| James Allard - 2004 - 270 páginas
...the sentence in the metalanguage. So, for example, the definition might entail the biconditional " 'Snow is white' is true if and only if snow is white." In such a biconditional the sentence "Snow is white" is equivalent to the sentence " 'Snow is white'... | |
| Tom Huhn - 2004 - 452 páginas
...language need not be thought of in terms of biconditional statements which define literal meaning, such as '"Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white'. Instead metaphors, like music, matter because of the world-disclosing capacity that they share with... | |
| David Johnson - 2004 - 216 páginas
...— in our wonderfully rich language — about truth, such as that 'Snow is white' is true, and that 'Snow is white' is true if and only if Snow is white, and that The Liar is not true? What's the threat? What's the problem? Unless the mere absence of a... | |
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