Combining Philosophers

Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Allan Gibbard and Robert Kirk

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

4999	For behaviourists language is just a special kind of behaviour [Kirk,R]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

4995	Behaviourists doubt whether reference is a single type of relation [Kirk,R]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

14071

Naming a thing in the actual world also invokes some persistence criteria [Gibbard]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference

12231

Reference needs truth as well as sense [Hale/Wright]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths

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Many conceptual truths ('yellow is extended') are not analytic, as derived from logic and definitions [Hale/Wright]