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Rejecting World-Language Connections as a Constraint on Truth Conditional Semantic Theories Jody Azzouni It’s widely presumed that truth conditional semantic theories must characterize the truth conditions of the sentences of an object language in terms of referential relations between the terms of that language and the world. I offer arguments for thinking this is false. Indeed, more generally, I argue that truth conditional semantic theories should be neutral as far as the ontological commitments of the (object) languages under study are concerned, and I sketch why contemporary truth conditional semantic theories are already in a position to be interpreted in this ontologically neutral fashion.
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