TARSKI, ALFRED

tärˈskē, 1902–, Polish-American mathematician and philosopher, Ph.D. Univ. of Warsaw, 1924. He lectured at Warsaw until 1939, emigrated to the United States, and then taught at the Univ. of California, Berkeley (1942–68). Tarski made extensive, basic contributions to the field of metamathematics, a branch of mathematical logic. His most important contribution to logic is the semantic method, a method that allows a more exacting study of formal scientific languages. His work is characterized by a basic acceptance and free use of the assumptions of set theory. For this reason he is regarded by some as a nominalist. His publications include A Decision Method for Elementary Algebra and Geometry (1948, rev. ed. 1957) and Undecidable Theories (with others, 1953; repr. 1968).

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Undecidable Theories
Book by Alfred Tarski; North-Holland Pub. Co., 1953
Subjects: Metamathematics
WANDA SZMIELEW and ALFRED TARSKI. "Mutual interpretability of...p. 734. WANDA SZMIELEW and ALFRED TARSKI. "Theorems common to all complete...Society , vol. 55 1949 , p. 1075. ALFRED TARSKI. A decision method for elementary...
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Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938
Book by Alfred Tarski, J. H. Woodger; Clarendon Press, 1956
Subjects: Logic, Symbolic And Mathematical, Semantics (Philosophy)
...CALCULUS 38 by Jan LUKASIEWICZ and Alfred TARSKI V. FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF THE METHODO...PROJECTIVE SETS by Casimir KURATOWSKI and Alfred TARSKI 143 VIII. THE CONCEPT OF TRUTH IN...DEDUCTIVE THEORIES by Adolf LINDENBAUM and Alfred TARSKI 384
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Introduction to Logic and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
Book by Alfred Tarski, Olaf Helmer-Hirschberg; Oxford University Press, 1941
Subjects: Arithmetic--Foundations, Mathematics--Philosophy
INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC AND TO THE METHODOLOGY OF DEDUCTIVE SCIENCES BY ALFRED TARSKI ENLARGED AND REVISED EDITION OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK
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Alfred North Whitehead: Essays on His Philosophy
Book by George L. Kline; Prentice-Hall, 1963
Subjects: Whitehead, Alfred North--1861-1947
...Century Company, 1923 , pp. 80-85. 5 This result, as Jean Porte informs me, is a corollary of a theorem mentioned by Tarski in the course of his Paris lectures of 1955. 6 See "Boolean Algebra and the Propositional Calculus," Mind, 71 1962 , 383...
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The Philosophy of A.J. Ayer
Book by Lewis Edwin Hahn; Open Court, 1992
Subjects: Ayer, A. J--(Alfred Jules)--1910-
...427 , 570 ff "sortal identity, " 435 space, and time, 46 f, 503 ff, 552 f, 596 Straaten, Zak van, 365 n Tarski, Alfred, 19 f, 68 , 132 , 144 , 148 n, 202 , 204 , 212 f, 216 , 217 , 220 , 222 , 426 taste, and morality, 316
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journal articles on: Tarski Alfred  - 23 results

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Tarski, the Liar, and Inconsistent Languages
Journal article by Douglas Eden Patterson; The Monist, Vol. 89, 2006
Subjects: English language--Terminology, Liar paradox--Analysis, Ray, Greg--Works, Semantics--Analysis, Soames, Scott--Works
...Press. Ray, Greg, 2003: "Tarski and the Metalinguistic Liar...York: Oxford University Press. Tarski, Alfred, 1944: "The Semantic Conception...and the Concept of Truth," in Alfred Tarski: Collected Papers, vol. 2...
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A General Semantics Glossary
Journal article by Robert P. Pula; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 54, 1997
Subjects: Language and languages--Analysis, Semantics--Analysis, Tarski, Alfred--Philosophy
...P. Pula validity and truth. Alfred Tarski (1902-1983) is "credited...work, see Andrzej Mostowski, "Tarski, Alfred," in Paul Edwards, ed., The...writer of the Tarski article, "Tarski, Alfred," The Oxford Companion to Philosophy...
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A General Semantics Glossary (Part Xviii)
Journal article by Robert P. Pula; et Cetera, Vol. 54, 1997
Subjects: Logic, Mathematics, Personal profiles, Semantics, Tarski, Alfred (1902-83)
...ROBERT P. PULA* validity and truth. Alfred Tarski (190X1983) is "credited with advancing...orientation. (1) But Professor Tarski did much more than that, leading...work Korzybski knew and who, with Tarski, influenced Korzybskis work...
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Compositional Principles vs. Schematic Reasoning
Journal article by Hartry Field; The Monist, Vol. 89, 2006
Subjects: Reasoning--Analysis
...I am of course just following Tarski. In my view there is a better resolution...12) We see, then, that the Tarski Schema (T) becomes a vastly more...of Meaning. M.I.T. Press. Tarski, Alfred, 1956. "The Concept of Truth...
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Supermodularity and Complementarity in Economics: An Elementary Survey
Journal article by Rabah Amir; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 71, 2005
Subjects: Economic theory--Models, Economics--Models, Equilibrium (Economics)--Models
...89. Shannon, Christina. 1995. Weak and strong monotone comparative statics. Economic Theory 5:209-27. Tarski, Alfred. 1955. A lattice-theoretic fixed point theorem and its applications. Pacific Journal of Mathematics 5:285...
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Hotel Infinity
Magazine article by Martin Gardner; New Criterion, Vol. 24, October 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox (Book)--Book reviews
...blowing is a mathematical result known as the Banach-Tarski paradox after two Polish mathematicians, Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski. Tarski is best known for his semantic theory of truth. It...
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Kenneth Arrow on Economic Thought and Academic Freedom
Magazine article by Roger Bowen; Academe, Vol. 92, May/Jun 2006
Subjects: Academic freedom, American history, Arrow, Kenneth, College students, Economics, Economists, Elections, Game theory, Political science
...was a very famous Polish logician. Alfred Tarski, who was caught by war in the United...the philosophy department. I knew Tarski was one of the great names. He gave...development of your theory? Arrow: Tarski had asked me if I would proofread...


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Tarski, Alfred
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TARSKI, ALFRED tar ske, 1902 , Polish-American mathematician and philosopher, Ph...and then taught at the Univ. of California, Berkeley (1942 68). Tarski made extensive, basic contributions to the field of metamathematics...
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Semantics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Russell , Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap , Alonzo Church, Alfred Tarski, C. I. Lewis , Ludwig Wittgenstein , J. L. Austin...influence human behavior. General semantics was developed by Alfred Korzybski . The key term in Korzybskis system is evaluation...


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