Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Aristotle and Georges Rey

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
2337 For Aristotle meaning and reference are linked to concepts [Aristotle, by Putnam]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
3181 A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be [Rey]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
3204 The meaning of "and" may be its use, but not of "animal" [Rey]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
3205 Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
20300 Externalist synonymy is there being a correct link to the same external phenomena [Rey]
19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
3209 Causal theories of reference (by 'dubbing') don't eliminate meanings in the heads of dubbers [Rey]
3210 If meaning and reference are based on causation, then virtually everything has meaning [Rey]
19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
3149 Referential Opacity says truth is lost when you substitute one referring term ('mother') for another ('Jocasta') [Rey]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
5107 Predicates are substance, quality, place, relation, quantity and action or affection [Aristotle]
12349 Only what can be said of many things is a predicable [Aristotle, by Wedin]
11837 Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself [Aristotle]
19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
13763 Spoken sounds vary between people, but are signs of affections of soul, which are the same for all [Aristotle]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
20294 'Married' does not 'contain' its symmetry, nor 'bigger than' its transitivity [Rey]
20293 Analytic judgements can't be explained by contradiction, since that is what is assumed [Rey]
20297 Analytic statements are undeniable (because of meaning), rather than unrevisable [Rey]
20301 The meaning properties of a term are those which explain how the term is typically used [Rey]
20302 An intrinsic language faculty may fix what is meaningful (as well as grammatical) [Rey]
20303 Research throws doubts on the claimed intuitions which support analyticity [Rey]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths
11240 The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
20299 If we claim direct insight to what is analytic, how do we know it is not sub-consciously empirical? [Rey]
19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
5849 Rhetoric is a political offshoot of dialectic and ethics [Aristotle]
22570 Rhetoric now enables good speakers to become popular leaders [Aristotle]
19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial
1705 It doesn't have to be the case that in opposed views one is true and the other false [Aristotle]
12368 Negation takes something away from something [Aristotle]
19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
3169 A simple chaining device can't build sentences containing 'either..or', or 'if..then' [Rey]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor
1692 If you shouldn't argue in metaphors, then you shouldn't try to define them either [Aristotle]