44 ;;Quote: need a theory of truth because truth can not be identified with mathematical provability; Godel

49 ;;Quote: the truth of a sentence consists in its agreement with reality; Aristotle

50 ;;Quote: semantic conception of truth--"X is true iff p" where X is the name of sentence p and p is a true sentence of the language

51 ;;Quote: semantic conception of truth has a precise, rigorous meaning only if a language is exactly specified with axioms and rules of inference

Higg. ;;Note: the Liar's paradox: (1) (1) is not true

53 ;;Quote: prevent Liar's paradox by not using a semantically closed language with 'true' and "X is true iff p"; use metalanguage and object language

56 ;;Quote: a sentence is true if it is satisfied by all objects, and false otherwise; start with simplest sentential functions and then compound functions

56 ;;Quote: any definition of true which is materially adequate must include the semantic conception of truth since that's how it was defined

61 ;;Quote: few people agree that "true" means "agreeing with reality", while most agree that "it is snowing" is true if and only if it is snowing

62 ;;Quote: the semantic definition of truth says nothing about when a sentence X is true, only that it must correlate with "the sentence "X" is true"

Kald. ;;Note: Physicalism is that all facts are either physical or mathematical and that scientific claims and concepts are reducible