Vladimir_Nesov comments on Tarski Statements as Rationalist Exercise - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 March 2009 07:47PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 18 March 2009 11:57:04PM 2 points [-]

Perhaps I would understand what you're getting at if you explained what a Tarski statement is. Google doesn't know.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 March 2009 01:17:20AM *  1 point [-]

"Tarski statement" is a naturally made-up expression, just like "Litany of Tarski", that describes the statements of the form given in the citation in the epigraph and later in the article. For example:

[T]he sentence "the apple is poisonous" is true if and only if the apple is poisonous.

It's even used in a few papers as the Google test shows.