Tarski
Proper noun
Meaning
Tarski (plural Tarskis)
A surname from Polish.
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According to Anita Feferman, Tarski "changed the face of logic in the twentieth century".
Alfred Tarski published much pioneering work in the field, which is named after a series of papers he published under the title Contributions to the theory of models.
After becoming the youngest person ever to complete a doctorate at Warsaw University, Tarski taught logic at the Polish Pedagogical Institute, mathematics and logic at the University, and served as Łukasiewicz's assistant.
As to why Tarski, a professed atheist, converted, that just came with the territory and was part of the package: if you were going to be Polish then you had to say you were Catholic."
Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic (2004), page 39. Tarski was a Polish nationalist who saw himself as a Pole and wished to be fully accepted as such later, in America, he spoke Polish at home.
As a result, Tarski held that the semantic theory could not be applied to any natural language, such as English, because they contain their own truth predicates.