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Alfred Tarski (1944) wrote that “the condition of the ‘essential richness’ of the metalanguage proves to be, not only necessary, but also sufficient for the construction of a satisfactory definition of truth.” But it has remained unclear what Tarski meant by an ‘essentially richer’ metalanguage. Moreover, DeVidi and Solomon (1999) have argued in this Journal that there is nothing that Tarski could...
According to Timothy Williamson's epistemic view, vague predicates have precise extensions, we just don't know where their boundaries lie. It is a central challenge to his view to explain why we would be so ignorant, if precise borderlines were really there. He offers a novel argument to show that our insuperable ignorance ``is just what independently justified epistemic principles would lead one...
I offer an interpretation of a familiar, but poorly understood portion of Tarski’s work on truth – bringing to light a number of unnoticed aspects of Tarski’s work. A serious misreading of this part of Tarski to be found in Scott Soames’ Understanding Truth is treated in detail. Soames’reading vies with the textual evidence, and would make Tarski’s position inconsistent in an unsubtle way. I show...
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