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Full Idea
An ability to state the condition for the truth of a sentence is, in effect, no more than an ability to express the content of the sentence in other words.
Gist of Idea
Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence
Source
Michael Dummett (The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic [1973], p.224)
Book Ref
Dummett,Michael: 'Truth and Other Enigmas' [Duckworth 1978], p.224
A Reaction
Alternatively, if you give something other than a paraphrase of the sentence as its meaning (such as a proof of its truth), then you seem to have departed from your target sentence. Can we reduce and eliminate our sentences in this way?