Quote: theory of meaning is the semantic concept of truth only when truth conditions are expressed in the language; also needed for foreign languages

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The remarks of the last paragraph [about a theory of meaning being the same as knowing the semantic concept of truth for a language] apply directly only to the special case where it is … and understood by the characterizer. Under these circumstances, … of the built-in convenience of a metalanguage with … [p. 84] It must be possible, of course, for … though in this case the empirical test of … will be an infinite correlation of sentences alike … likely equivalences between his own tongue and the … [cf. Quine's "radical translation" in Word and Object, 1960]   Google-1   Google-2

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