> To me, this seems to be putting the cart before the horse, as if the truth of a statement is dependent on its linguistic properties. I suspect that truth of

> To me, this seems to be putting the cart before the horse, as if the truth of a statement is dependent on its linguistic properties. I suspect that truth of a statement will depend at least in part on its linguistic properties, since the meaning of the statement will determine which part of the world will make it true or false. I think that this is the bit that Brandom is concerned with - the question of how language gets the ability to say anything at all.