..."if and only if" — states the literal truth conditions of the sentence of the left-hand side. (3) "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white. In this case, the truth conditions are that snow is white. (1999, p. 7) I have detected three other...

...more and no less about truth than Aristotle said. He provided this simple equivalence: The sentence, "Snow is white" is true if, and only if snow is white. Okay, you knew that for sure already. What you may not have known is that, according to Semantics,...

...English. Davidson thinks that he can expose this idea as incoherent. We recognize sentences like ' "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white' to be trivially true. Yet the totality of such English sentences uniquely determines the extension...

...language need not be thought of in terms of biconditional statements which define literal meaning, such as '"Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white'. Instead metaphors, like music, matter because of the world-disclosing capacity that they share with...

...singular virtues. First, it explains perfectly well why we are so convinced thai the proposition that snow is white is true if and only if snow is white, and similarly for most other propositions; and this is not such an easy matter to explain on the basis...

...— in our wonderfully rich language — about truth, such as that 'Snow is white' is true, and that 'Snow is white' is true if and only if Snow is white, and that The Liar is not true? What's the threat? What's the problem? Unless the mere absence of a...

...universal theory of truth, when he warns against turning the series of Tarski's T-sentences, such as "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white, into a generalization through the mediation of open sentences such as "p" is true if and only if p,...

...Disquotationalism Truth, according to Quine, is disquotation. This, he says, "is explicit in Tarski's paradigm: 'Snow is white' is true if and only if snow is white. Quotation marks all the difference between talking about words and talking about snow. The quotation...

...true seems to say no more than the assertion itself. A frequently cited example due to Tarski is: (*) "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white. A variant of (*) starts by singling out the sentence (1) Snow is white. Then another way of expressing...

...a statement referring to the "real world" could be shown to be true (for example, "The belief that snow is white is true if and only if snow is white"). But problems arise: if it is a "fact" that snow is white, then we need to know what facts are, and...