Truth-bearers from Twardowski to Tarski
pp. 73-84
Abstract
It seems to be clear what the truth-bearers are in Tarski's semantic definition of truth given in (1933).1 They are sentences. The predicate "is true' is affirmed in the metalanguage of the sentences in the object language, i.e. the language in which we talk about things. Then the first question is: do the metalinguistic expressions which tell us about sentences univocally define the notion of a sentence? The second question is: why should sentences and not, for example, judgements, play the role of truth-bearers?
Publication details
Published in:
Kijania-Placek Katarzyna, Woleński Jan (1998) The Lvov-Warsaw school and contemporary philosophy. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 73-84
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-5108-5_7
Full citation:
Rojszczak Artur (1998) „Truth-bearers from Twardowski to Tarski“, In: K. Kijania-Placek & J. Woleński (eds.), The Lvov-Warsaw school and contemporary philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, 73–84.