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By what generic method do we correctly determine that an analytical expression of language is true?

You ask: By what generic method do we correctly determine that an analytical expression of language is true? Analytical constructions, a notion that has become tarnished somewhat since Two Dogmas, ...
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By what generic method do we correctly determine that an analytical expression of language is true?

{Linguistic/Empirical Distinction} (adaptation of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction) Truth entirely contained within language versus truth requiring sense data from the sense organs, direct ...
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To write within (2), "snow is white"(ML) is incorrect. "Snow is white" is an object language sentence. It is a statement about snow, not a statement about sentences. Sentence (1) ...
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I think the purpose of Tarski’s venture is to use 1) to clarify what True means. Tarski’s theorem then shows that a metalanguage with 2) (assuming the statements 1) and 2) are themselves metalanguage ...
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