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Alfred Tarski's "On the concept of following logically"

Abstract

We provide for the first time an exact translation into English of the Polish version of Alfred Tarski's classic 1936 paper, whose title we translate as ‘On the Concept of Following Logically’. We also provide in footnotes an exact translation of all respects in which the German version, used as the basis of the previously published and rather inexact English translation, differs from the Polish. Although the two versions are basically identical, to an extent that is even uncanny, we note more than 400 differences. Several dozen of these are substantive differences due to revisions by Tarski to the Polish version which he did not incorporate in the German version. With respect to these revisions the Polish version should be regarded as more authoritative than the German. Hence scholars limited to an English translation should use ours. © 2002 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Authors

Stroinska M; Hitchcock D

Journal

History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 155–196

Publication Date

January 1, 2002

DOI

10.1080/0144534021000036683

ISSN

0144-5340

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