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Hey, you're listening to the partially examined life episode at 194 part two

We've been talking about Tarski's paper

The semantic conception of truth and the foundation of semantics

So there's still a second half of that paper left

But we should probably just get on to the other ones which are commenting on Tarski's overall project in the second half of Tarski's paper

He comments himself on his project. He kind of responds to some

objections and maybe those will come up as we're going through here

Well, I think we've kind of established that he doesn't think that he's

Doing metaphysics. He doesn't think there are any metaphysical implications of what he's doing

But he thinks it's useful. He thinks it can be even though it's not about everyday language

That could be applied to at least scientific languages within a particular small field

He sees what he's doing is kind of comparable to pure mathematics

You might not know how to apply that to anything, but it sure is impressive and probably applications come up eventually

So yeah, let's get into the the heartory field article Tarski's theory of truth from 1972

What are our reactions to that? What's the thesis of that? What's what's going on here? Why did we read it?

Well field is kind of pivoting off right some of the

His criticisms have something in common with our sort of got reaction to or at least my got reaction to

Tarski's definition of truth where you're

Giving a list I think essentially you's trying to say what motivated

Tarski to do this and

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