Is There a Difference Between Truth and Meaning?

The theory of meaning for language was developed by fragen and russell. The basic thought is that we can have a language which has finitely many expressions. We can specify the rules that allow infinitely many sentences to be used. And then, we can specify the conditions for each sentence that have to be satisfied by the world if that sentence is to be true. It seems to me that tha really a ground breaking aspect is this notion ofit, of making an equivalent between truth and meaning.

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