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Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics
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Truth and Meaning
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Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has rem
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Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings ar