Satisfaction Guaranteed

Grice got so irritated when they asked (axed) him about 'true' and 'truth', that he'd reply,

"Forget about truth. I'm going to speak
of factual satisfactoriness. Nothing that
is charming about truth should be less
charming about factual satisfactoriness"

His programme was vast. He aimed at providing a link between assertoric satisfactoriness ("It is raining" via the Frege stroke) and "Rain!".

In this he was beng lexicological

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1944 Annals Math. Stud. XIII. 91

"Formulas which are valid (or satisfiable) in every domain of individuals."

1952 R. L. WILDER Introd. Foundations Math., p. 26

"An axiom system is satisfiable if there exists an interpretation of S."

But the term was in vogue in England well before the logicists:

1646 SIR T. BROWNE Pseud. Ep. I. vii. 26

In natural philosophy it carries but slender consideration, for that also
proceeding from settled principles, therein is expected a satisfaction from
scientifical progressions, and such as beget, a sure and rational belief.


1722 DeFOE Plague (1754) 249,
I have had very good Satisfaction, that it was utterly false.

-- As Popper would agree.


1605 BACON Adv. Learn. II. vii. §7
The handling of finall causes has given men the occasion, to stay upon these
satisfactory and specious causes, to the great arrest of further discovery.

Ibid. xxv. § 12 It is true, that knowledges reduced into exact methods have
a shew of strength. But this is more _satisfactory_ then substantial.

--- I don't know what he is complaining about since 'substantia' is not a
word he would find to be much to the advancement of _learning_...

1687 A. LOVELL tr. Thevenot's Trav. II. 89,
I could not learn of any a satisfactory reason for that last signification.

1860 TYNDALL Glac. II. xxiv. 361,
I also made a few experiments at Rosenlaui,..but the result was not
satisfactory.

--- and so the theory _refuted_.


1839 JAMES Louis XIV, III. 138
He was denied the opportunity..of explaining satisfactorily the facts which
tended to criminate him.

Trust the Polish word that Tarski used for 'satisfaction' to be _Slavic_ and ultimately derived, via Cyril, to Greek.

Etc.