We humans engage in many activities, some of which we appraise for truth. The linguistic practice of making statements is one of those. We regularly assert about a vast variety of matters that they are thus and so, and in each case the question can be asked: is what was asserted true? Although we have found the linguistic conception of truth narrow and inadequate — because it took truth to apply only to statements and similar linguistically structured items — it is incontrovertible that many items in the linguistic domain are appraised for their truth.