Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Donald Davidson, Aristotle and Nicholas Bourbaki
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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The concept of truth can explain predication [Davidson]
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Predicates are substance, quality, place, relation, quantity and action or affection [Aristotle]
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Only what can be said of many things is a predicable [Aristotle, by Wedin]
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Modern predicates have 'places', and are sentences with singular terms deleted from the places [Davidson]
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Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself [Aristotle]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]
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If you assign semantics to sentence parts, the sentence fails to compose a whole [Davidson]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]
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A theory of meaning comes down to translating sentences into Fregean symbolic logic [Davidson, by Macey]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Top-down semantic analysis must begin with truth, as it is obvious, and explains linguistic usage [Davidson]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
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You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]
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