Truth and Understanding Demonstratives

Mark Textor

• Contents
• Introduction
• Preliminary Distinctions
• Davidson's Semantic Program
  • Truth and Meaning
  • ``A (very large) fly in the ointment''
• The Relation between Sense and Reference
• Completing Sense and Truth-theory
• Indexicals and Indexical Meta-languages
  • Perry's Arguments
  • Can an adequate truth-theory incorporate indexical axioms?
  • Can an adequate truth-theory incorporate indexical theorems?
• Conditional truth conditions and open sentences
• Resumee
• About this document ...

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