Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-329) and index.
Regimentation -- The Tarski-Quine thesis -- The intersubjectivity constraint -- How to think about words -- Learning from others, interpretation, and charity -- A puzzle about sameness of satisfaction across time -- Sense and partial extension -- The puzzle diagnosed and dissolved -- Applications and consequences.
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To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need a theory of truth predication that applies both to sentences that we are using ourselves and to sentences used by others. Ebbs presents a new conception of words and shows how to use it to define a truth predicate that directly applies to all these kinds of sentences.