Meaning and Truth‐Conditions

In Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 27–48 (1997)
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In the transition from logical positivism to modern analytical philosophy, the idea that to understand a sentence came near to being mislaid entirely. It was brought back into a new prominence in the late 1960s by Donald Davidson. In advance of considering more recent claims about meaning, it will be useful to mark certain moments in the formulation and reformulation of the original insight of the truth‐conditional theory. The Fregean idea was destined to be rediscovered for philosophy and accorded an attention it had never previously enjoyed, but scarcely immediately. To understand Donald Davidson's revival of the general idea of meaning as given by truth‐conditions and the distinctive advance that this made possible, it helps to appreciate the immediate background of his speculations. According to Davidson, the thing that impinges on subjects had better be the world itself, the world that is common to both interpreter and subjects.

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