ABSTRACT
The nature of truth is a very ancient problem in philosophy; but not until the present century did philosophers and logicians attempt to separate this problem from the problems of the nature of knowledge and the nature of warranted belief. That one could have a theory of truth which is neutral with respect to epistemological questions, and even with respect to the great metaphysical issue of realism versus idealism, would have seemed preposterous to a nineteenth-century philosopher. Yet that is just what the most prestigious theory of truth, Tarski’s theory, 1 claims to be.
