The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages

Tarski, A. (1935). The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages. Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1935

Pages cited

261-405

Link

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/logic-semantics-metamathematics-9780915144761

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linguistics_semiotics, mathematics

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• Completeness
  • Tarski (1936) clarified the syntactic/semantic distinction by giving the formal definition of truth in formalised languages, making semantic completeness (every sentence is provable or refutable) precisely formulable.

    This sourceGives the formal definition of truth in formalised languages via satisfaction and the object-language/metalanguage distinction, making semantic completeness (every sentence provable or refutable) precisely formulable.

• Meta-Symbolic Reflection
  • A system $S$ constructed to reference its own completeness/consistency paradoxically reveals its own incompleteness (Gödel's Theorem, Tarski 1936

    This sourceTarski Concept of Truth truth-hierarchy metalanguage formalized.

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