Ideas from 'Semantics for Natural Languages' by Donald Davidson [1970], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (2nd ed)' by Davidson,Donald [OUP 2001,0-19-924629-7]].

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Soames]
Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Smart]