Truth and Meaning

Davidson, D. (1967). Truth and Meaning. Synthese, 17(3), 304-323.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1967

DOI

10.1007/bf00485035

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485035

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics, philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Compositionality
  • Davidson (1967) in Truth and Meaning argues that a compositional truth-conditional semantics is the foundation for understanding language—though debates over holism versus molecularity continue (CROSS-DP-19 holism).

    This sourceArgues a Tarski-style compositional truth-conditional semantics models how sentence meaning depends on word meanings and explains learnability; foundation-of-semantics claim (supports D22-229).

• Holism
  • Davidson's "Truth and Meaning" (1967)

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