Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Blaise Pascal, Theodore Sider and Thomas Mautner

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

14999

Prior to conventions, not all green things were green? [Sider]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

6899	The references of indexicals ('there', 'now', 'I') depend on the circumstances of utterance [Mautner]

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

14998

Conventions are contingent and analytic truths are necessary, so that isn't their explanation [Sider]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique

15016

Analyticity has lost its traditional role, which relied on truth by convention [Sider]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

6681	We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal]