ABSTRACT
The importance of the undisputed thesis appears to Mr Warnock to lie in the bearing it has on attempts to answer, or on criticisms of attempts to answer, certain philosophically debated questions. A main part of Mr Warnock's purpose, then, is to insist that no answer to the questions, and no criticism of any such answer, is acceptable if that answer or criticism is incompatible with the undisputed thesis. In any predication of 'is true', in which 'is true' is predicated of a statement, something is said about that statement. Mr Warnock's redrafting is not unexceptionable. It does not seem at first that there could be any difference between the words uttered in making the statement that S and the sentence used in making that statement. The requirements of the undisputed thesis do not favour an Austinian account of the sense of predications of 'is true' rather than a Ramsey-like account.
