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(2014) The history and philosophy of Polish logic, Dordrecht, Springer.
Many recent discussions of truth and its (in)definability can serve to illustrate a well-known fallacy. This fallacy is the fallacy of authority. The authority in question is Alfred Tarski. He is of course a genuine authority when it comes to the definability of truth (see Tarski, [1935] 1983). But then, the fallacy of authority does not mean an authority's mistake, but a misinterpretation of what the authority is supposed to have said.
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Hintikka, J. (2014)., Truth defined and undefined, in K. Mulligan & T. Placek (eds.), The history and philosophy of Polish logic, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 131-140.
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