Litigating for Hollywood celebrities and, for no fee, taking on a two-decade appeal that overturned a death sentence certainly satisfied George R. Hedges.
"To the extent the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals concluded that the substance of the jury instructions given at Penry's second sentencing hearing satisfied our mandate in Penry I, that determination was objectively unreasonable," she wrote.
There are basically two approaches: (1) Take one structure A at a time, and regard the nonlogical constants as constants, interpreted in A. (2) Regard the nonlogical constants as variables, and use the 1933 definition to describe when a sentence is satisfied by an assignment of the ingredients of a structure A to these variables.
And some philosophers (e.g. Eklund 2002) have argued that there are inconsistent sets of sentences that satisfy this condition.
One modest way of putting the point is this: beliefs are like declarative sentences, which are satisfied (made true) by whether the world as it is conforms to them But desires are like imperative sentences, which are satisfied (fulfilled) by changes in the world bringing the world into conformity with them.
Truth-value gaps may arise when neither truth nor falsity can be meaningfully ascribed to a sentence (because a presupposition of the sentence is not satisfied).
This may be having her cake and eating it too, as serving her sentence would satisfy Wall Street and the Advertisers, and by appealing, she could still serve Justice.
(Or, on the Tarskian account of satisfaction, if and only if the open sentence Fx is satisfied by every object in the domain of the model).
(After testifying, Ah Kay, who was described by one of the prosecutors who put him on the stand as "an incredibly violent man with zero regard for human life," was deemed to have satisfied his sentence with time served. He is now a free man).
In contrast, a database curator for the FlyBase or the Mouse Genome Informatics databases, who is looking for experimental evidence that the gene was expressed under certain conditions, would only be satisfied with sentences discussing experimental evidence and stating with high confidence that the gene was indeed expressed under the reported conditions.
