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EQUIVALENCES FOR TRUTH PREDICATES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2017

CARLO NICOLAI
CARLO NICOLAI*
Affiliation:
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich
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*MUNICH CENTER FOR MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY GESCHWISTER-SCHOLL PLATZ 1, MUNICH GERMANY E-mail: Carlo.Nicolai@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
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Abstract

One way to study and understand the notion of truth is to examine principles that we are willing to associate with truth, often because they conform to a pre-theoretical or to a semi-formal characterization of this concept. In comparing different collections of such principles, one requires formally precise notions of inter-theoretic reduction that are also adequate to compare these conceptual aspects. In this work I study possible ways to make precise the relation of conceptual equivalence between notions of truth associated with collections of principles of truth. In doing so, I will consider refinements and strengthenings of the notion of relative truth-definability proposed by Fujimoto (2010): in particular I employ suitable variants of notions of equivalence of theories considered in Visser (2006) and Friedman & Visser (2014) to show that there are better candidates than mutual truth-definability for the role of sufficient condition for conceptual equivalence between the semantic notions associated with the theories. In the concluding part of the paper, I extend the techniques introduced in the first and show that there is a precise sense in which ramified truth (either disquotational or compositional) does not correspond to iterations of comprehension.

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03F2503F3003F3503A05Formal Theories of Truthinterpretabilitysameness of theoriesarithmetical comprehension

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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 322 - 356
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2017 

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