... as true or as false in terms of their composition out of their constituent expressions. The book investigates the two concepts on which the bridge that connects semantics to metaphysics rests, meaning and truth, and the role of justification in a theory of meaning. It then examines the special semantic...

...This book poses a broad challenge to the realist views of meaning and truth that have been prominent in recent philosophy. The book starts with a careful critical survey of the realism debate, guiding the reader through its complexities; it then presents a sustained defence of the anti-realist view...

...-conditions theories of communication-intention formal semantics P.F. Strawson Donald Davidson Richard Moran John McDowell Meaning and Truth On 5 November 1969, Peter Strawson delivered ‘Meaning and Truth’, his Inaugural Lecture at Oxford. Although more than fifty years have since elapsed, we are only...