... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share
... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share
However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share
It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white. — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken… — Alfred Tarski Copy Share Image
