Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Ernest Sosa and Willard Quine
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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It is troublesome nonsense to split statements into a linguistic and a factual component [Quine]
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Inculcations of meanings of words rests ultimately on sensory evidence [Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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If we understand a statement, we know the circumstances of its truth [Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]
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Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
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'Renate' and 'cordate' have identical extensions, but are not synonymous [Quine, by Miller,A]
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Single words are strongly synonymous if their interchange preserves truth [Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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Once meaning and reference are separated, meaning ceases to seem important [Quine]
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Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised [Quine]
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Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine]
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I do not believe there is some abstract entity called a 'meaning' which we can 'have' [Quine]
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The word 'meaning' is only useful when talking about significance or about synonymy [Quine]
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