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logical puzzles, and then asked, how can we put together a theory of such
sentences that explains why the sentences exhibit those puzzling semantic
features? His answer, as in the Theory of Descriptions, would be a putative
truth condition.
Truth-Condition Theories: Davidson's program 115
The Truth-Condition Theory sees meaning as representation. In effect it
reverts to the Referential Theory's idea of meaning as mirroring or corre-
spondence between sentences and actual or possible states of affairs; Russell
emphasized this idea (and indeed made it a cornerstone of his metaphysics).
The truth definition is founded on the referential relations between terms
and their worldly denotata or extensions. We saw in chapter 1 that the crude
Referential Theory was far too simple an idea of the correspondence between
words and the world; the truth-condition theorist does not posit so strong or
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