Combining Philosophers

Ideas for E.M. Cioran, Willard Quine and Pamela Foa

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
Syntax and semantics are indeterminate, and modern 'semantics' is a bogus subject [Quine, by Lycan]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
Quine relates predicates to their objects, by being 'true of' them [Quine, by Davidson]
Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer [Quine]