Tarski
Tarski refers to Alfred Tarski (1901–1983), a Polish-American logician and mathematician whose work shaped modern logic and semantics.
His semantic theory of truth—defining truth in terms of correspondence between statements and the world—remains foundational in philosophy and linguistics.
Tarski's definition of truth, Tarskian semantics.
The adjective Tarskian describes work influenced by his approach.
Sentence's non-subject portion
- quantifierWord expressing amount
- first-orderSimplest logical level
- deductionConclusion from premises
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
proposition · axiom · theorem · proof · validity · formalism · contradiction · completeness
Exchanged written communication
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- metalanguageVocabulary describing linguistic structure
- undefinabilityState beyond precise description
- recursionProcess invoking itself
hierarchy · levels · bivalence · self-reference · paradox · definability
Science of spatial relationships
- algebraMath using symbols
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- measureUnit of quantity
Poland's largest city
- PolandCentral European republic
- BerkeleyBay Area university city
- PopperFalsificationist epistemologist from Vienna
- logicianExpert in valid reasoning
philosopher · emigration · PhD · professor · student · teacher · collaborator · twentieth-century
Assigned meaning
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- denotationWord's explicit dictionary meaning
- extensionAdded part or duration
- designationFormal name or title
domain · assignment · structure · meaning · satisfaction · definition · signification · valuation
predicate
Sentence's non-subject portion
- quantifierWord expressing amount
- first-orderSimplest logical level
- deductionConclusion from premises
inference · proposition · axiom · theorem · proof · validity · formalism · contradiction · completeness · consequence
correspondence
Exchanged written communication
- satisfactionState of fulfilled desires
- metalanguageVocabulary describing linguistic structure
- undefinabilityState beyond precise description
recursion · hierarchy · levels · bivalence · self-reference · paradox · definability
geometry
Science of spatial relationships
- algebraMath using symbols
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
Warsaw
Poland's largest city
- PolandCentral European republic
- BerkeleyBay Area university city
- PopperFalsificationist epistemologist from Vienna
logician · philosopher · emigration · PhD · professor · student · teacher · collaborator · twentieth-century
interpretation
Assigned meaning
- referenceDirecting attention elsewhere
- denotationWord's explicit dictionary meaning
- extensionAdded part or duration
designation · domain · assignment · structure · meaning · satisfaction · definition · signification · valuation · truth-value
- math logicaxioms, proofs, theorems, set theory, completeness
- Polish Philosophy
- logicpremise, premises, conclusion, conclusions, inference
TarskiWilliam James
American pragmatist philosopher-psychologist
John Dewey · pragmatist · pragmatism · relativism · Heidegger