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[filed under theme 3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers ]

Full Idea

Davidson, by contrast to Frege, has taken truth as attaching to linguistic items, that is, to actual or hypothetical token sentences.

Gist of Idea

Davidson takes truth to attach to individual sentences

Source

report of Donald Davidson (True to the Facts [1969]) by Michael Dummett - Truth and the Past 1

Book Ref

Dummett,Michael: 'Truth and the Past (Dewey Lectures)' [Columbia 2004], p.2


A Reaction

My personal notion of truth is potentially applicable to animals, so this doesn't appeal to me. I am happy to think of animals as believing simple propositions that never get as far as language, and being right or wrong about them.