Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Brand Blanshard, John Perry and Scott Soames

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]

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

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If we replace 'I' in sentences about me, they are different beliefs and explanations of behaviour [Perry]

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Indexicals individuate certain belief states, helping in explanation and prediction [Perry]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames]