From the Act of Judging to the Sentence The Problem of Truth Bearers
This book offers a detailed study of the truth-bearers problem, that is, the question of which category of items the predicates ‘true’ and ‘false’ are predicated. The book has two dimensions: historical and systematic. Both focus around Tarski’s semantic
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ARTUR ROJSZCZAK
From the Act of Judging to the Sentence The Problem of Truth Bearers from Bolzano to Tarski
FROM THE ACT OF JUDGING TO THE SENTENCE
SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief:
VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLEN´SKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 328
FROM THE ACT OF JUDGING TO THE SENTENCE The Problem of Truth Bearers from Bolzano to Tarski
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ARTUR ROJSZCZAK
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Edited by
JAN WOLEēSKI Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
A C.I.P. P Catalogue record fo f r this book is available fr f om the Library r of Congress.
ISBN-10 1-4020-3396-6 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-10 1-4020-3397-4 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3396-4 (HB) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3397-1 (e-book) Springer Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York
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Summary Contents
Preface
vii
1. INTRODUCTION: ALFRED TARSKI’S PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS 1933 DEFINITION OF TRUTH
1
2. THE NOTION OF THE TRUTH BEARER
23
3. DESCRIPTIVE PSYCHOLOGY: THE THEORY OF JUDGEMENT AS THE THEORY OF COGNITION AND KNOWLEDGE
33
4. JUDGEMENT, PSYCHOLOGY, AND LANGUAGE
57
5. THE ONTOLOGY OF JUDGEMENT
83
6. REISM
103
7. THE OBJECTIVITY OF TRUTH
111
8. ONTOLOGISM, ABSTRACT OBJECTS AND NOMINALISM
161
9. BRENTANISM AND THE BACKGROUND OF THE SEMANTICS OF THE LVOV-WARSAW SCHOOL
171
10. JUDGMENT, BELIEF, AND SENTENCES: REMARKS ON THE TRUTH BEARER IN THE LVOV-WARSAW SCHOOL
191
11. FINAL COMMENTS
213
References Appendices: Publications of Artur Rojszczak Index
221 235 239
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Contents
Preface
xiii
1. INTRODUCTION: ALFRED TARSKI’S PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND IN THE CONTEXT OF HIS 1933 DEFINITION OF TRUTH 1 The Question of the Truth Bearer in Tarski’s Theory of Truth? 2 The Ambiguity of Tarski’s Concept of a Sentence 3 Alfred Tarski as Philosopher? 3.1 Tarski’s Philosophical Background 3.2 Some Facts and Genetic Connections 3.3 Brentanism in Ta
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