Logical consequence: A defense of Tarski

DOI10.1007/BF00265256MaRDI QIDQ5961453zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Greg Ray

Publication date 15 September 1997

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00265256

zbMATH Keywords

logical consequencemodel theoryTarski

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

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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