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    It is not the case that Tarski's truth-conditional semantics demonstrates that a formally precise, philosophically tractable theory of meaning can be grounded in truth without appealing to inferential practice.

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    • 1.Determining whether atomic sentences are true requires recognizing how they connect to experience—a process Tarski's formal system cannot specify.
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    • 2.Meaning involves understanding what speakers intend to communicate; truth conditions alone underdetermine this communicative content.
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    • 3.Inference distinguishes meaningful expressions from truth-equivalent nonsense: "bachelor" and "unmarried man" have identical truth conditions but different inferential roles.
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    • 1.Tarski's T-schema (S is true iff P) provides a formal criterion for meaning that avoids circular appeals to understanding or interpretation.
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    • 2.Truth conditions can be specified recursively for complex sentences from atomic base cases, enabling systematic compositional semantics.
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    • 3.This framework successfully explains how sentences map to the world without presupposing inferential capacities or conceptual schemes.
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