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for the way in which truth conditions can be assigned to sentences of
natural languages.
· But since English sentences' surface grammar diverges from their
logical forms, a theory of grammar and syntactic transformation is
needed.
· Such a theory exists and has independent support.
· Davidson's theory faces many objections. Perhaps the most damaging
is that many perfectly meaningful sentences do not have truth-values.
Some others are that his Tarskian program cannot handle expressions
(such as pronouns) whose referents depend on context, predicates
that are not synonymous but happen to apply to just the same things,
and sentences whose truth-values are not determined by those of their
component clauses.
· It may be possible to fuse Davidson with Grice by providing a Gricean
theory of term extensions.
Questions
1 Evaluate Davidson's main argument for his Truth-Condition Theory;
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