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Ideas for Christian Wolff, Thomas Reid and Immanuel Kant
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
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The ambiguity of words impedes the advancement of knowledge [Reid]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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Non-subject/predicate tautologies won't fit Kant's definition of analyticity [Shapiro on Kant]
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How can bachelor 'contain' unmarried man? Are all analytic truths in subject-predicate form? [Miller,A on Kant]
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Analytic judgements say clearly what was in the concept of the subject [Kant]
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Analytic judgement rests on contradiction, since the predicate cannot be denied of the subject [Kant]
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If the predicate is contained in the subject of a judgement, it is analytic; otherwise synthetic [Kant]
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Analytic judgements clarify, by analysing the subject into its component predicates [Kant]
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