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The idea for this paper derives from some comments Donald Davidson has made on model-theoretic semantics in several of his papers. I would like to thank him and John Wallace. I would also like to thank Bill Lycan, Paul Yu and John Biro for comments on earlier drafts of this paper.

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Lepore, E. What model theoretic semantics cannot do?. Synthese 54, 167–187 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869390

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