Logical consequence: A defense of Tarski (Q5961453)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 980789
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Logical consequence: A defense of Tarski (English)
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15 September 1997
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This paper is a technically, and textually, well argued defense of Tarski against John Etchemendy's harsh dismissal of Tarski's pioneering work on logical consequence and model theory. In his: The concept of logical consequence (1990; Zbl 0743.03002), \textit{J. Etchemendy} argued that Tarski gave an inaccurate account of logical consequence, committed a significant modal fallacy and used techniques which are incompatible with current model theory. On the basis of a technical reconstruction of Tarski along with a philosophically sympathetic account of Tarski's aims, the author systematically rebuts Etchemendy's charges to show that without fallacies adequately analyzed a significant notion of logical consequence and set us on the road to model theory.
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Tarski
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logical consequence
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model theory
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