ABSTRACT
Donald Davidson has made the remarkable, insightful and initially incredible claim that a Tarskian truth definition-a mere material truth theory-can ‘do duty’ for a theory of meaning. I will explain what I think Davidson means by the claim and how I think he defends it. I will offer a sort of objection to Davidson’s defence. Then I will go on to offer my own defence of the claim, which beds it within a philosophical perspective that differs somewhat from Davidson’s. Let me first define some terms, since I’ll be using some vocabulary in a slightly untraditional way.
