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Many recent discussions of truth and its (in)definability can serve to illustrate a well-known fallacy. This fallacy is the fallacy of authority. The authority in question is Alfred Tarski. He is of course a genuine authority when it comes to the definability of truth (see Tarski, [1935] 1983). But then, the fallacy of authority does not mean an authority’s mistake, but a misinterpretation of what the authority is supposed to have said.
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Hintikka, J. (2014). Truth Defined and Undefined. In: Mulligan, K., Kijania-Placek, K., Placek, T. (eds) The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030894_7
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