Lexicon of Arguments

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Berka I 397
Designation/denotation/description/Tarski: Example: "the victor of Jena" refers to Napoleon.
Satisfaction: Example: snow satisfies the condition "x is white"
Definition: Example: x³ = 2 defined (uniquely determined), the cube root of the number 2.(1)
>Descriptions, >Definitions, >Satisfaction.

1. A.Tarski, „Grundlegung der wissenschaftlichen Semantik“, in: Actes du Congrès International de Philosophie Scientifique, Paris 1935, VOl. III, ASI 390, Paris 1936, pp. 1-8
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Berka I 481
Def designating/Tarski: to say that the name x refers to an object a, is the same as to determine that the object a (or any sequence whose corresponding element is a) satisfies a propositional function of a particular type.
>Propositional functions, >Proper names.
In ordinary language:
"x is a".(2)

2. A.Tarski, Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den formalisierten Sprachen, Commentarii Societatis philosophicae Polonorum. Vol 1, Lemberg 1935
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Skirbekk I 186
Def denotnation / Tarski: a given term denotes a given object, if this object satifies the propositional function "x is identical with T", where "T" stands for the given term.(3)
>Identity, cf. >Predication.

3. A.Tarski, „Die semantische Konzeption der Wahrheit und die Grundlagen der Semantik“ (1944) in: G. Skirbekk (ed.) Wahrheitstheorien, Frankfurt 1996

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