Re: JSH: But what is truth?

Gene Ward Smith wrote:
jst...@xxxxxxx wrote:

Or maybe you think others have defined truth?

"P is true" iff P, according to Tarski.

That's not Tarski's definition of truth, but the T-scheme. Tarski's actual definition of truth was (a variant of) the usual inductive one. The T-scheme is an adequacy condition on any such definition; according to Tarski a definition of truth must yield all instances of the T-scheme.

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