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Single Idea 19176

[from 'Truth and Predication' by Donald Davidson, in 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates ]

Full Idea

My strategy is to show how our grasp of the concept of truth can explain predication.

Gist of Idea

The concept of truth can explain predication

Source

Donald Davidson (Truth and Predication [2005], 7)

Book Reference

Davidson,Donald: 'Truth and Predication' [Belknap Harvard 2005], p.161


A Reaction

His account of the concept of truth centres on Tarski's theory, but he clearly thinks more is needed than the bare bones offered by Tarski. The point, I think, is that predication is what makes a sentence 'truth-apt'.

Related Idea

Idea 19139 Tarski does not tell us what his various truth predicates have in common [Davidson]