"cordates" - 1 õppematerjal

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of one containing "cordate," for each term will have been assigned just the same class of objects as its extension. First reply In a truth theory of the sort described here, the words used in the right-hand sides of the T-sentences are supposed to correspond as closely as possible to the expressions composing the target sentence. (Look back at the truth defi- nition for Oafish.) Thus, one will write the clause for "renate" as "`Renate' denotes renates" rather than as "`Renate' denotes cordates." To derive the lat- ter (albeit true) statement from our truth theory, one would need to add the contingent and nonlinguistic premise, "All and only renates are cordates." And, according to Davidson, the meaning of a target sentence is given, not by just the T-sentence directed upon that target sentence, but by the T-sentence together with its derivation from the axioms of the truth theory. To avoid the suggestion that being cordate is part of the meaning of "renate," we can