To know the meaning of a sentence is to know its truth-conditions. Yet, in what does the knowledge of truth-conditions consist? In many cases, it consists in knowing the way in which the truth of the sentence is dependent upon the truth of some other sentences in the language; in some cases, paradigmatically those of the statements of observation. This knowledge consists in the ability to give a report of observation. Then one must know a way. Hence, the notion of truth-conditions no longer occupies the central place, being replaced by verification and falsification.
Keywords: Davidson, intuitionism, manifestation, meaning, theory of meaning, truth, truth-conditions, verification