Abstract

The standard view about the bearers of truth, the entities that are the ultimate objects of predication of truth or falsity is that they are propositions or sentences semantically correlated with propositions. The orthodox conception of truth-bearers can be expressed in two forms: TB1: The primary truth-bearers are propositions, TB2: The primary truth-bearers are sentences that encode a proposition «P». Conventional-implicature operators introduce non-truth-conditional contents to sentences. The orthodox view is that conventional implicatures, as part of non-truth-conditional meaning, are not elements of semantic content in the sense of content that can embed in sentential compounds and can enter into logical arguments. The demise of Content Monism is serious for orthodox thinking. This chapter provides an analysis of the said-content, unsaid-content distinction, which is a distinction falling within semantic content, which is to say, content that is rule-based and embeddable in logical compounds. Keywords: content monism; conventional-implicature; orthodox conception; proposition; said-content distinction; truth bearers; unsaid-content distinction

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