Truth and Meaning.

Truth and Meaning

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Truth and meaning

It is conceded by most philosophers of language, and recently even by some linguists, that a satisfactory theory of meaning must give an account of how the meanings of sentences depend upon the meanings of words. Unless such an account could be supplied for a particular language, it is argued, there would be no explaining the fact that we can learn the language: no explaining the fact that, on ...

Truth and Meaning

This article is not the first to go by the name "Truth and Meaning". It is preceded by a homonymously titled paper published by Donald Davidson in 1967, a seminal paper on the topic of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. It seems appropriate that "Truth and Meaning", (Davidson 1967) should loom large in this article. I will say something about previous work in the area, go on to di...

Meaning, Context, and Logical Truth

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Truth in virtue of meaning