Truth via anaphorically unrestricted quantifiers

2024-12-25 Classification：language Click()
Author：Azzouni, J

Article Title：Truth via anaphorically unrestricted quantifiers

Abstract：
A new approach to truth is offered which dispenses with the truth predicate, and replaces it with a special kind of quantifier which simultaneously binds variables in sentential and nominal positions. The resulting theory of truth for a (first-order) language is shown to be able to handle blind truth ascriptions, and is shown to be compatible with a characterization of the semantic and syntactic principles governing that language. Comparisons with other approaches to truth are drawn. An axiomatization of AU-quantifiers and a model theory for them is given, and an appendix contains a completeness proof.

Keywords: truth; Alfred Tarski; Deflationism; blind ascriptions; anaphora; semantic rules; axioms; completeness

DOI: 10.1023/A:1017515608543

Source：JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC

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