Truth and meaning

1967/01/01 by Donald Davidson · 974 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Critical Realism in Sociology #Epistemology #Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity #Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies #Linguistics #Meaning (existential) #Metaphysics #Philosophy #Philosophy of language #Philosophy of science

paper · doi:10.1007/bf00485035

published in Synthese 17(1), 304-323 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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