Truth and Meaning Essays in Semantics

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 remained essential reading in this area ever since; this is its first appearance in paperback. The contributors include leading figuresin late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett. Most of the papers are not available elsewhere.

Introduction	p. vii
Meaning and Truth Theory	p. 1
Reply to Foster	p. 33
Truth Conditions, Bivalence and Vertificationism	p. 42
What is a Theory of Meaning? (II)	p. 67
Two Theories of Meaning	p. 138
Truth Definitions and Actual Languages	p. 162
On Understanding the Structure of One's Language	p. 189
Semantic Structure and Logical Form	p. 199
Language-Mastery and the Sorites Paradox	p. 223
Existence and Tense	p. 248
States of Affairs	p. 263
The De Re 'Must': a Note on the Logical Form of Essentialist Claims	p. 285
An Appendix to David Wiggins' 'Note'	p. 313
Is There a Problem about Substitutional Quantification?	p. 325
Notes on the Contributors	p. 420
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