Abstract: The bridge that connects semantics to metaphysics rests on two pillars: the concept of content and the concept of truth. This chapter focuses on the latter. It considers three possible positions concerning the place of truth in the philosophy of thought and philosophical explanation of meaning. It argues that a philosophical account of linguistic meaning must take the form of a philosophical account of language: we have to seek an explanation of what it is for something to be a language, which means an explanation of how a language functions in the lives of those who use it. The legitimacy of using the concept of truth itself, or the concepts of truth and falsity, in developing a philosophical account of language, will depend upon the perspective from which this task is viewed.

Keywords: reality, proposition, Frege, linguistic meaning, facts, language,