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| | SELLARS-HARMAN CORRESPONDENCE |
 | | Thus, if satisfaction were, indeed, a relation between open sentences and objects (more accurately, sequences of objects), we would, indeed, have been shown that the concept of truth is at bottom the concept of a relation between language and the world. |
 | | The truth of basic sentences, however, involves, indeed is grounded in, the existence of a relation of picturing between tokens of the sentences and the objects to which they refer. |
 | | This prompts fact-theorists to try to explain the truth of all sentences in terms of the truth of the simplest and hence, in particular, to interpret quantification as mere shorthand for conjunctions or alternations (perhaps infinite in length) of the simplest sentences. |
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