Remarks on Compositionality and Weak Axiomatic Theories of Truth
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The paper draws attention to an important, but apparently neglected distinction relating to axiomatic theories of truth, viz. the distinction between weakly and strongly truth-compositional theories of truth. The paper argues that the distinction might be helpful in classifying weak axiomatic theories of truth and examines some of them with respect to it.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Philosophical Logic
دوره 43 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014