An Observation about Truth

Dissertation, University of Jerusalem (2017)
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Tarski's analysis of the concept of truth gives rise to a hierarchy of languages. Does this fragment the concept all the way to philosophical unacceptability? I argue it doesn't, drawing on a modification of Kaplan's theory of indexicals.

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David Kashtan
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Semantics and Truth.Jan Woleński - 2019 - Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag.

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