  Given the close connection between meaning and truth, it is widely held that any semantics for a language L, i.e., any theory of meaning for L, will be closely related to a theory of truth for L: indeed, it is commonly held that something like a Tarskian theory of truth for L will be a central part of a semantics for L. Thus, the impossibility of giving a Tarskian theory of truth for languages with their own truth predicates threatens the project of giving a semantics for languages with their own truth predicates.