It is easy to be misled by the measured quality and respectfulness with which Paul Pietroski deals with his subject matter into thinking that it is not what it in fact is—- a radical and provocative defence of the claim that truthbased theories of meaning are inadequate to the task, and should now be abandoned, i.e. the claim in D is false.

(1) D. If L is a Slang, then some theory of truth for L is the core of a correct theory of meaning for L.

If you are a working formal semanticist of natural language and are notshocked and/or exhilarated by the content of this book, then in my opinionyou were not reading carefully enough.