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"[S]entences are not true or false just as such. Sentences are made true, or made false, only when asserted. It is not the assertions which make them true or false (except in some rather rare cases): it is rather that asserting a sentence puts it in position to be made true or false. The very same sentence, when asserted, is either true or false, depending upon ... what?

"Assertion is an action which, as it were, engages language with the world. But assertion is less important than our discussion suggests. For we may say, of a given sentence, that were someone to assert it, [she or] he would say something true, or something false, because the required relationship between the sentence and the world holds, or fails to hold. I shall speak of this relationship as correspondence." -- Arthur Danto

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