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- From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
- Subject: Re: Truth again
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:50:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.062548.11476@u.washington.edu> joechip@hardy.u.washington.edu (Erich Vandenloos) writes:
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- >I've been following this thread for a bit and noticed Tarski popping up
- >a couple of times. I've been reading Etchemendy's "The Concept of Logical
- >Consequence," which is basically a sustained attack on Tarski's ideas
- >about truth and consequence (isn't that in New Mexico?). It's interesting,
- >although a little too Realist for my taste, but I was wondering if anyone
- >else has read it or is reading it, and is interested in discussing it. I
- >hope to hear from you hypothetical "consequence-enthusiasts" out there!
-
- I liked this book for a number of reasons, not least for its unblinking
- insistence that logical truth is just conceptual truth and vice versa.
- The book doesn't really attack the received Tarskian view, though. It's
- more that it attacks what Tarski actually said, which turns out to be
- somewhat different. So somehow two wrongs turn out to be something of a
- right, and the received view (logical truth/consequence = truth/consequence
- in all models) isn't in too much danger. The real work in the definition
- is done by the unanalyzed modal and semantic notions ("all models" and
- "true in a model" respectively), though, so no-one can claim that this
- provides much of a "reduction".
-
- --
- Dave Chalmers (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)
- Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
- "It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
-