Sentence examples for utterance is true from inspiring English sources
I am talking about ocelots, and if what I say of them (that they take snuff) is true of them, then my utterance is true.
at the present time and we want to evaluate whether what John said by means of that utterance is true or false in other possible circumstances, it is John's properties in those other circumstances that are relevant.
Mightn't it be that, when the economist utters a certain strict generalization sentence in an "economic setting" (say, in an economics textbook or at an economics conference), context-sensitive considerations affecting its truth conditions will have it turn out that the utterance is true?
Twoscar's thought and utterance are true if and only if XYZ flows.
Suppose that they are in exactly the same brain state when they entertain simultaneously a thought they would both express with the English sentence 'Water flows.' Oscar's thought and utterance are true if and only if H2O flows.
In that case, there would be nothing to go on, in seeking to establish whether the utterance was true or false, other than the words used, given their meanings.
Lemmon 1962 argues that performative utterances are true on the ground that they are instances of a wider class of sentences whose utterance guarantees their truth.
Possibilistic versions of situation semantics typically start out with a recursive truth definition that relates utterances of sentences to the sets of possible situations in which the utterances are true, the propositions expressed.
The Naive Russellian thinks that an utterance of (4) is true in exactly those conditions under which an utterance of (1) is true.
On the face of it, an utterance of (2) is true if and only if a given concrete individual does exemplify the property of being a Socialist.
But our claim is that the proposition expressed by David's actual utterance of (1) is true at the described counterfactual circumstance, while the propositions (actually) expressed by (2) and (3) are false at that circumstance.
