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This article was written for an American Philosophical Association Symposium of the same title held in San Francisco, March 1991, with Scott Soames as cosymposiast and Mark Richard commenting; a longer version has appeared inIyyun. It is also a descendent of a paper given under the title “Semantics Past and Future” at a meeting of the Bar-Hillel Colloquium, Jerusalem, Israel, in January 1991, Tanya Reinhart commenting. The comments of Reinhart and of Richard, and Soames's contribution to the symposium, have prompted some revisions in the text; but because of the occasional nature of their drafts I have not cited them explicitly. For other comments on this article and its antecedent I am indebted particularly to Noam Chomsky, Martin Davies, Alexander George, Gabriel Segal, and Robert Stalnaker.
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Higginbotham, J. Truth and understanding. Philos Stud 65, 3–16 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00571313
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00571313