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“The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics”
Part I. Exposition
1. The Main Problem – A Satisfactory Definition of Truth
2. The Extension of the Term “True”
3. The Meaning of the Term “True”
4. A Criterion for the Material Adequacy of the Definition
5. Truth as a Semantic Concept
6. Languages with a Specified Structure
8. The Inconsistency of Semantically Closed Languages
9. Object-Language and Meta-Language
10. Conditions for a Positive Solution of the Main Problem
11. The Construction (in Outline) of the Definition
Text:
Tarski, Alfred. “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics”. In The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. Michael P. Lynch, ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts / London: MIT, 2001, pp.331-363.
A hyperlinked online version can be found here:
http://www.ditext.com/tarski/tarski.html
The Lynch edited book writes this in the acknowledgments:
Alfred Tarski. “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4 (1944). Copyright 1992 by the Estate of Alfred Tarski. Reprinted by permission of Jan Tarski.
Further bibliographical information from
http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~hharley/courses/522/522/MPPLecture4.html:
Alfred Tarski (1944) The semantic conception of truth and the foundations of semantics (Reprinted as Chapter 4 of Martinich’s anthology). This is an abridged and updated version of his 1935 long paper Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprache (The concept of truth in formalized languages), itself a translation from his book in Polish of 1933.
And yet further bibliographical information from the German wiki page for Tarski
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski:
Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen. In: Studia Philosophica. [Lemberg] 1 (1936), S. 261–405 (Vorabdruck datiert 1935).[4] Der Artikel ist eine deutsche Übersetzung der erstmals 1933 gedruckten polnischen Arbeit, die aber schon 1931 der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert wurde. Nachdruck in Karel Berka, Lothar Kreiser (Hrsg.): Logik-Texte. Kommentierte Auswahl zur Geschichte der modernen Logik. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1983, S. 445–546, in englischer Sprache in Tarski: Logic, Semantics and Metamathematics - papers from 1923 to 1938 by Alfred Tarski. Oxford 1956, 1983.
The German text can be found here:
http://www.ifispan.waw.pl/studialogica/s-p-f/volumina_i-iv/I-07-Tarski-small.pdf
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