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Views on truth of German and Austrian philosophers (among others, Lotze, Fries, Erdmann, Mauthner, Bolzano, Brentano, Frege) as well as British philosophers (Bradley, Joachim, Russell) are presented in this chapter. As Tarski as a mathematician and philosopher grew up in Poland, the special section is devoted to truth-definitions put forward by some Polish philosophers and logicians of the 20th century. The last section contains a sample of definitions circulating in philosophy in the last hundred years—most definitions are taken from analytic philosophy.
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Woleński, J. (2019). Truth in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In: Semantics and Truth. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 45. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24536-8_3
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