Is Alfred Tarski Alethic Relativist? Cover Image

Czy Alfred Tarski jest relatywistą aletycznym?
Is Alfred Tarski Alethic Relativist?

Author(s): Jacek Moroz
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: semantic theory of truth; T-equivalence; relativism of truthł Alfred Tarski; Lvov-Warsaw School

Summary/Abstract: In the article Popper, Tarski and Relativism Jennings argues that according to T-equivalence all ontology (all sort of things in the world) is the derived from the first-order language. So such argumentation leads directly to the relativistic interpretation of Tarski’s semantic theory of truth. This interpretation is very controversial especially given that almost all philosophers of the Lvov-Warsaw School assert that truth is a nonrelativistic value. It seems that Alfred Tarski shares this view with Kazimierz Twardowski and his students. However there are many incompatible interpretations according to which the semantic theory of truth generates different consequences. Thus we can understand this theory in a relativistic, deflationist or absolutist ways. In this article I am reconstructing the relativistic and nonrelativistic interpretations of the semantic theory of truth and I attempt to provide an answer to the important question about whether or not Alfred Tarski is a relativist?

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 99-118
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish
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