Dear All
To save you waiting for the next auto-notification, here's the title
and abstract for Adrian Heathcote's talk next Wednesday (3.30,
Refectory, etc)
Tarskian Truth, Disquotationalism and Correspondence
That there are problems with Tarski's theory of truth is not a new
idea, but I argue here that the central problem has been overlooked.
It is this problem that is responsible for the alarming discrepancy in
the perception of the theory: for whereas Tarski saw his theory as a
vindication of the correspondence intuition, most modern commentators
since Quine have thought that it was a disquotationalist account ---
or more properly, that the instances if the T-schema should be
understood in that way. I argue that when the problem is understood
and corrected that Tarski's theory is indeed a correspondence theory,
albeit an incomplete one. This leads to my final claim, easily
demonstrated, I think, that the disquotationalist conception of truth
is simply a confusion --- indeed it is a use/mention confusion.
cheers
d
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