Davidson's truth-conditionalsemantics grounds meaning in publicly verifiable satisfaction conditions, providing the only compositional framework amenable to algorithmic implementation.
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Satisfaction conditions(what Williamson argues is indeterminate in borderline cases)
The specific requirements or criteria that must be met for something to count as true or for an object to belong to a category.
Truth-conditional semantics(the theory Dummett criticized)
A theory of meaning saying that the meaning of a statement is determined by the conditions that would make it true—basically, you understand what something means by knowing what would have to happen for it to be true.
grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.