Truth Conditions Flashcards
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Q
What is truth conditional semantics
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Truth conditions are the conditions that would have to exist for a sentence to to be truth
Saeed,2003
•An approach to meaning based on truth.
•Semantisis call a state of a sentence being true or false its truth value
•the facts that has to be obtained from reality for a sentence to be true are the truth conditions
•truth is empirical therefore speakers have to have a knowledge about the world.
Semantic relations like synonymy antonymy, entailment and presupposition is based on truth conditions
