On Wright’s Inductive Definition of Coherence Truth for Arithmetic
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As the first illustration of a potential satisfier for the ‘platitudes for truth’ in the appendix to his engaging recent discussion of the concept of truth (Wright 1999), Crispin Wright has proposed a notion of ‘truth conceived as coherence’ for arithmetic. This paper attempts to clarify certain aspects of Wright’s proposal. Take the standard first-order language of arithmetic L. Let B be some axiom system for arithmetic, which Wright calls the ‘coherence base’. With small notational modifications, Wright proposes the following inductive definition of the concept ‘coheres with B’ (for L-sentences):
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