Truth and Meaning
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Truth and Meaning is a seminal philosophical essay by Donald Davidson that argues for understanding meaning through a formal theory of truth inspired by Tarski.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Truth and Meaning canonical | 2 |
| essay "Meaning" | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
philosophical essay
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work on philosophy of language ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst | meaning theories based on reference to meanings as entities ⓘ |
| arguesFor | truth-conditions as central to meaning ⓘ |
| assumes |
a systematic relation between syntax and semantics
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that a theory of meaning should be learnable by speakers ⓘ |
| author | Donald Davidson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticizes |
intensional meaning theories that posit meanings as abstract entities
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verificationist theories of meaning ⓘ |
| field |
analytic philosophy
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philosophy of language ⓘ |
| hasImpactOn |
debates about the nature of meaning
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debates about truth and interpretation ⓘ formal approaches to natural language semantics ⓘ |
| hasKeyClaim |
a satisfactory theory of meaning for a language can be given by a suitably constrained theory of truth for that language
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a theory of meaning should be finitely axiomatizable and compositional ⓘ a theory of meaning should entail all T-sentences for the object language ⓘ knowledge of meaning is knowledge of truth-conditions ⓘ semantic structure of sentences can be captured via a formal truth theory ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
T-sentences
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compositionality of meaning ⓘ radical interpretation ⓘ semantic theory ⓘ truth-conditions ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
formal semantic analysis
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model-theoretic inspiration from Tarski ⓘ |
| hasReception | widely regarded as a seminal paper in philosophy of language ⓘ |
| influenced |
Davidsonian semantics
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contemporary philosophy of language ⓘ formal semantics in linguistics ⓘ theories of radical interpretation ⓘ truth-conditional semantics ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Alfred Tarski ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
formal theories of truth
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theories of meaning ⓘ truth-conditional semantics ⓘ |
| partOf | Donald Davidson’s collected essays ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy of language ⓘ |
| proposes | understanding meaning via a theory of truth ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1967 ⓘ |
| publishedIn | Synthese ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
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Radical Interpretation ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
Tarskian object-language/metalanguage distinction
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surface form:
Tarskian truth theory
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essay "Meaning"