Alfred Tarski

"Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceed…"

"Tarski's Semantic Theory on the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy."

"It is perhaps worth while saying that semantics as conceived in this paper is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions to being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases …"

"Tarski's Revolution: A New History, an Erc Starting Grant Project, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam."

"There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and infer correctly."

"For reasons mentioned at the beginning of this section, we cannot offer here a precise structural definition of semantical category and will content ourselves with the following approximate formulatio…"

"The present article is almost wholly devoted to a single problem—the definition of truth. Its task is to construct—with reference to a given language—a materially adequate and formally correct definit…"

"If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, wi…"