A defense of Tarski

Philosophical Studies 174 (8):1885-1894 (2017)
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Kit Fine has argued that the Tarski Semantics for the language of first order logic is inadequate. A semantic theory for FOL is inadequate if there are formulae of FOL whose meanings or satisfaction conditions it cannot compositionally account for. It is argued here that Fine’s case against Tarski rests on a mistake.

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10.1007/s11098-016-0773-5

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Tarski's truth definitions.Wilfrid Hodges - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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Comments on Scott Soames’‘Coordination Problems’.Kit Fine - 2010 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81 (2):475-484.

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