Meaning and truth I

pp. 30-49

in: Mohanty, Phenomenology and Ontology, Berlin, Springer, 1970

Abstract

I have chosen as the theme of my address two questions which to my mind owe their importance in philosophy to the fact that they place us exactly on the borderline between philosophy of language, theory of knowledge and ontology. These two questions roughly formulated are : what is the nature of the meaning of expressions ? How is the notion of meaning related to that of truth? The precise implications of these two questions however could emerge only as we proceed with our discussions.