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One of the conditions proposed in Tarski’s classical monograph (1936) — a condition on any satisfactory definition of truth — is that the definition should imply all sentences of the following form.
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Hintikka, J. (1976). A Counterexample to Tarski-Type Truth-Definitions as Applied to Natural Languages. In: Kasher, A. (eds) Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1876-0_6
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