Meaning and Truth Conditions

There is a strong tendency within Analytic Philosophy to identify the meaning of a statement with its truth conditions.

While this is almost right, it ignores the ambiguity introduced by the problem of interpreting truth conditions - of, literally, establishing their meanings.

This is just the OQ problem, of course, in another guise - but it represents an absolute bar to avoiding ambiguity entirely when it comes to questions of meaning. Meaning will always be contextual - consequent upon a context of (to some extent tacit) agreement. In circumstances where that context can be shown to be any possible linguistic exchange, statements about meaning will become 'privileged', in Stroud's sense.

This test, of course, depends on what we mean by 'language' ...