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Most of the material in this paper has been presented in classes and seminars or roughed out in short workpapers over the past four years. I am deeply indebted to students and friends who have suggested novel strategies, spotted errors and, more important, helped clarify the point of this work on truth theory. I cannot mention everyone who has helped in these ways but I must mention Nuel Belnap, Richard Grandy, Gilbert Harman, Richard Jeffrey, Sue Larson, David Lewis, Thomas Scanlon, Marc Temin, and Samuel Wheeler. To Donald Davidson I have a deeper debt: when I was a graduate student, his vision of the place of theory of meaning in philosophy and of the relation between a theory of truth and a theory of meaning set me to work on truth, meaning, and philosophy. I have had the benefit of countless discussions with him while the work reported in this paper was in process.
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Wallace, J. On the frame of reference. Synthese 22, 117–150 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413601
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