Phänomenologie der digitalen Welt

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Some sober conceptions of mathematical truth

Marco Panza(Centre national de la recherche scientifique)

pp. 335-347

Abstrakt

It is not sufficient to supply an instance of Tarski's schema, ⌈"p" is true if and only if p⌉ for a certain statement in order to get a definition of truth for this statement and thus fix a truth-condition for it. A definition of the truth of a statement x of a language L is a bi-conditional whose two members are two statements of a meta-language L". Tarski's schema simply suggests that a definition of truth for a certain segment x of a language L consists in a statement of the form: ⌈v(x) is true if and only if τ(x)⌉, where ⌈v(x)⌉ is the name of x in L" and τ(x) is a function τ: SS" (S and S" being the sets of the statements respectively of L end L") which associates to x the statement of L" expressed by the same sentence as that which expresses x in L. In order to get a definition of truth for x and thus fix a truth-condition for it, one has thus to specify the function τ. A conception of truth for a certain class X of mathematical statements is a general condition imposed on the truth-conditions for the statements of this class. It is advanced when the nature of the function τ is specified for the statements belonging to X. It is sober when there is no need to appeal to a controversial ontology in order to describe the conditions under which the statement τ(x) is assertible. Four sober conceptions of truth are presented and discussed.

Publication details

Published in:

Hoffmann Michael H. G. , Lenhard Johannes, Seeger Falk (2005) Activity and sign: grounding mathematics education. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 335-347

DOI: 10.1007/0-387-24270-8_29

Referenz:

Panza Marco (2005) „Some sober conceptions of mathematical truth“, In: M. H. Hoffmann, J. Lenhard & F. Seeger (eds.), Activity and sign, Dordrecht, Springer, 335–347.