One can, of course, get arbitrarily wrapped around the axle of reference here. “The man with a quarter in his shoe is about to die,” said by George, who has a quarter in his shoe, shortly before his own death, is true… but most intuitive notions of truth leave a bad taste in my mouth if it turns out that George, when he said it, had not known about the quarter in his shoe and was asserting his intention to kill Sam, whom George mistakenly believed to have a quarter in his shoe. Which is unsurprising, since many intuitive notions of truth are primarily about evaluating the credibility and reliability of the speaker; when I divorce the speaker’s credibility from the actual properties of the environment, my intuitions start to break down.
One can, of course, get arbitrarily wrapped around the axle of reference here. “The man with a quarter in his shoe is about to die,” said by George, who has a quarter in his shoe, shortly before his own death, is true… but most intuitive notions of truth leave a bad taste in my mouth if it turns out that George, when he said it, had not known about the quarter in his shoe and was asserting his intention to kill Sam, whom George mistakenly believed to have a quarter in his shoe. Which is unsurprising, since many intuitive notions of truth are primarily about evaluating the credibility and reliability of the speaker; when I divorce the speaker’s credibility from the actual properties of the environment, my intuitions start to break down.