Organon F
Volume 27, November 2020, Issue 4, Pages 480–493
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?
Jan Wiślicki
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27404
The paper discusses Tarski’s approach to quotation. It starts from showing that it is vulnerable to semantic inconsistencies connected with what is known as Reach’s puzzle, formulated in 1938 by a Czech logician Karel Reach. This fact gives rise to serious problems concerning the relation between the metalanguage and an object language. Moreover, the paper touches upon a historic aspect, pointing out that the problem at hand is discussed in the only paper signed up as Al. Tajtelbaum, i.e. Alfred Tarski’s original name. It argues that the puzzle reveals the importance of reopening the discussion on the understanding and limitations of deriving the metalanguage from an object language.
Enquotation; metalanguage; quotation; Reach’s puzzle; Tajtelbaum; Tarski.
Author
Jan Wiślicki
Affiliation
University of Warsaw
Address
Department of Formal Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw, ul. Dobra 55, 00-312, Warsaw, Poland
Received
29 October 2019
Accepted
4 May 2020
Published online
17 October 2020
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Wiślicki, J. (2020). Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not? Organon F, 27(4), 480–493. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27404
Chicago
Wiślicki, Jan. 2020. "Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?" Organon F 27 (4): 480–493. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27404
Harvard
Wiślicki, J. (2020). Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not? Organon F, 27(4), pp. 480–493. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27404
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