----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
> >But you're then just using "true" to mean "work"
>
> No I'm not. I use "true" to mean "true," as understood, for less, by
Tarksi.
> For each sentence "p" in a scientific theory, "P" is true if and
only if p.
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Why not just bypass Tarski? That's what G Spencer Brown, Varela and more recently Michael Lynch, do and they still let us keep the virtues of recursiveness that Tarski alluded to. Otherwise aren't we just stuck endlessly prattling about deflationism?
Ian