Single Idea 2451

[catalogued under 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions]

Full Idea

If you know the content of a thought, you thereby know what would make the thought true.

Gist of Idea

To know the content of a thought is to know what would make it true

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §4)

Book Reference

Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.92


A Reaction

The truthmaker might by physically impossible, and careful thought might show it to be contradictory - but that wouldn't destroy the meaning.