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835	19.	Language
	A.	Nature of Meaning
30	1.	Meaning
15	2.	Meaning as Mental
9	3.	Meaning as Speaker's Intention
33	4.	Meaning as Truth-Conditions
36	5.	Meaning as Verification
27	6.	Meaning as Use
11	7.	Meaning Holism	a.	Sentence meaning
16			b.	Language holism
12			c.	Meaning by Role
8	8.	Synonymy
4	9.	Ambiguity
14	10.	Denial of Meanings
	B.	Reference
29	1.	Reference theories
5	2.	Denoting
11	3.	Direct Reference	a.	Direct reference
22			b.	Causal reference
12			c.	Social reference
17	4.	Descriptive Reference	a.	Sense and reference
25			b.	Reference by description
12	5.	Speaker's Reference
	C.	Assigning Meanings
9	1.	Syntax
26	2.	Semantics
25	3.	Predicates
16	4.	Compositionality
17	5.	Fregean Semantics
15	6.	Truth-Conditions Semantics
8	7.	Extensional Semantics
17	8.	Possible Worlds Semantics
15	9.	Indexical Semantics
20	10.	Two-Dimensional Semantics
	D.	Propositions
33	1.	Propositions
19	2.	Abstract Propositions	a.	Propositions as sense
9			b.	Propositions as possible worlds
14	3.	Concrete Propositions
20	4.	Mental Propositions
8	5.	Unity of Propositions
15	6.	Propositions Critique
	E.	Analyticity
20	1.	Analytic Propositions
12	2.	Analytic Truths
7	3.	Analytic and Synthetic
17	4.	Analytic/Synthetic Critique
	F.	Communication
24	1.	Rhetoric
4	2.	Assertion
10	3.	Denial
21	4.	Private Language
10	5.	Pragmatics	a.	Contextual meaning
11			b.	Implicature
5			c.	Presupposition
6	6.	Interpreting Language	a.	Translation
19			b.	Indeterminate translation
21			c.	Principle of charity
14			d.	Metaphor