Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Engelbretsen,G/Sayward,C, Boethius and Scott Soames
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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To study meaning, study truth conditions, on the basis of syntax, and representation by the parts [Soames]
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Tarski's account of truth-conditions is too weak to determine meanings [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]
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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]
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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]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
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We should use cognitive states to explain representational propositions, not vice versa [Soames]
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