Full Idea
Isn't it overwhelmingly obvious that 'Either snow is white or it isn't' was true before anyone stipulated a meaning for it, and that it would have been true even if no one had thought about it, or chosen it to be expressed by one of our sentences?
Gist of Idea
'Snow is white or it isn't' is just true, not made true by stipulation
Source
Paul Boghossian (Analyticity Reconsidered [1996], §I)
Book Reference
-: 'Nous' [-], p.4
A Reaction
Boghossian would have to believe in propositions (unexpressed truths) to hold this - which he does. I take the notion of truth to only have relevance when there are minds around. Otherwise the so-called 'truths' are just the facts.