What is it about?
Argues that two elements in the concept of truth should be distinguished, semantic truth and ontic truth. Semantic truth is a property of sentences, ontic truth is being or what is. Semantic truth is definable, à la Tarski, ontic truth is indefinable à la Frege.
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Why is it important?
Many disputes such as that between Dummett's anti-realism and Devitt's realism dissolve once it is noticed that two different concepts of truth are involved.
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This page is a summary of: On Semantic and Ontic Truth, Acta Analytica, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s12136-023-00574-z.
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