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Ideas for Donald Davidson, Gordon Graham and Ofra Magidor

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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
8870 Content of thought is established through communication, so knowledge needs other minds [Davidson]
3970 Thought is only fully developed if we communicate with others [Davidson]
19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / a. Contextual meaning
18036 A sentence can be meaningful, and yet lack a truth value [Magidor]
18051 In the pragmatic approach, presuppositions are assumed in a context, for successful assertion [Magidor]
19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
18043 The infelicitiousness of trivial truth is explained by uninformativeness, or a static context-set [Magidor]
18042 The infelicitiousness of trivial falsity is explained by expectations, or the loss of a context-set [Magidor]
19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / c. Presupposition
18047 A presupposition is what makes an utterance sound wrong if it is not assumed? [Magidor]
18048 A test for presupposition would be if it provoked 'hey wait a minute - I have no idea that....' [Magidor]
18049 The best tests for presupposition are projecting it to negation, conditional, conjunction, questions [Magidor]
18050 If both s and not-s entail a sentence p, then p is a presupposition [Magidor]
18054 Why do certain words trigger presuppositions? [Magidor]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
6179 Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]
6399 Criteria of translation give us the identity of conceptual schemes [Davidson]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
8869 The principle of charity attributes largely consistent logic and largely true beliefs to speakers [Davidson]
3971 There is simply no alternative to the 'principle of charity' in interpreting what others do [Davidson]
19154 The principle of charity says an interpreter must assume the logical constants [Davidson]
18703 Davidson's Cogito: 'I think, therefore I am generally right' [Davidson, by Button]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor
7776 Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]
18022 Metaphors tend to involve category mistakes, by joining disjoint domains [Magidor]
18027 Metaphors as substitutes for the literal misses one predicate varying with context [Magidor]
7775 Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]
19161 We indicate use of a metaphor by its obvious falseness, or trivial truth [Davidson]
18024 One theory says metaphors mean the same as the corresponding simile [Magidor]
18023 Theories of metaphor divide over whether they must have literal meanings [Magidor]
18025 The simile view of metaphors removes their magic, and won't explain why we use them [Magidor]
18026 Maybe a metaphor is just a substitute for what is intended literally, like 'icy' for 'unemotional' [Magidor]
18028 Gricean theories of metaphor involve conversational implicatures based on literal meanings [Magidor]
18029 Non-cognitivist views of metaphor says there are no metaphorical meanings, just effects of the literal [Magidor]
7777 We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]