Truthmakers, truthbearers and the objectivity of truth

Artur Rojszczak

Barry Smith

pp. 229-268

in: Jaakko Hintikka, Tadeusz Czarnecki, Tomasz Placek, Artur Rojszczak (eds), Philosophy and logic in search of the Polish tradition, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show that the account of objective truth taken for granted by logicians at least since the publication in 1933 of Tarski's The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages' arose out of a tradition of philosophical thinking initiated by Bolzano and Brentano. The paper shows more specifically that certain investigations of states of affairs and other objectual correlates of judging acts, investigations carried out by Austrian and Polish philosophers around the turn of the century, formed part of the background of views that led to standard current accounts of the objectivity of truth.¹ It thus lends support to speculations on the role of Brentano and his heirs in contemporary logical philosophy advanced by Jan Wolenski in his masterpiece on the Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School of 1989.

Cited authors

Brentano Franz