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I 115
Interpretative meaning theory/interpreted/Davidson:
1. You must know what is determined and relativized to expressions by an extensional finite Tarskian truth theory
2. Conscience empirical conditions are satisfied (usually principle of charity)
3. We would know that 1. and 2. exist.
((s) This is Davidson's solution for the problem, that the equivalence "Snow is white" is true iff grass is green, holds.)
>Homophony, >Truth definition, >Principle of charity.
This works only for a counterfactual conditional: "what would be the case ...". Otherwise it is not realistic for any actual speaker.
>Counterfactual conditional.
Problem: there is no Tarskian theory for natural languages.
>Truth definition/Tarski.
Strange feature/Schiffer: that there then has to be a content-determining property, which is not known by any speaker.
Solution: it is in the non-propositional or subdoxastic knowledge. It is in any case "represented internally".
Subdoxastic knowledge: >Beliefs/Schiffer.
Schiffer: this is not a mistake of Davidson.

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