ABSTRACT
The number of sentences a human being can produce, for example, is potentially infinite; for the longest sentence produced in the natural language a longer one can be generated by adding, in accordance with the formation rules of the language, an appropriate qualifier or clause. Natural language can be employed meaningfully and meaninglessly, correctly and incorrectly in a variety of perplexing ways. Semantic rules for the specification of meaning effectively operate when signs appear in syntactically ordered linguistic entities called “well formed sentences.” The candidate truth exhibited in the quotation from Morgenthau is a densely packed linguistic entity that requires considerable analysis before one can confidently search his subsequent exposition for evidence that would successfully warrant it. Any effort to bring order into either realm of truth ascription within the confines of ordinary language involves a host of difficulties which could hardly be adequately treated within the limits of this initial discussion.
