Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Jerry A. Fodor, Gottlob Frege and E Conee / R Feldman

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
2439 Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences [Fodor]
2457 If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs [Fodor]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
9167 Frege felt that meanings must be public, so they are abstractions rather than mental entities [Frege, by Putnam]
9583 Psychological logicians are concerned with sense of words, but mathematicians study the reference [Frege]
9584 Identity baffles psychologists, since A and B must be presented differently to identify them [Frege]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
2998 Grice thinks meaning is inherited from the propositional attitudes which sentences express [Fodor]
2482 It seems unlikely that meaning can be reduced to communicative intentions, or any mental states [Fodor]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
7307 A thought is not psychological, but a condition of the world that makes a sentence true [Frege, by Miller,A]
4980 The meaning (reference) of a sentence is its truth value - the circumstance of it being true or false [Frege]
3006 Whatever in the mind delivers falsehood is parasitic on what delivers truth [Fodor]
2451 To know the content of a thought is to know what would make it true [Fodor]
22318 Frege failed to show when two sets of truth-conditions are equivalent [Frege, by Potter]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
3007 Many different verification procedures can reach 'star', but it only has one semantic value [Fodor]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
3004 The meaning of a sentence derives from its use in expressing an attitude [Fodor]
16879 A sign won't gain sense just from being used in sentences with familiar components [Frege]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
8646 Words in isolation seem to have ideas as meanings, but words have meaning in propositions [Frege]
7732 Never ask for the meaning of a word in isolation, but only in the context of a proposition [Frege]
8446 We understand new propositions by constructing their sense from the words [Frege]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
9180 Holism says all language use is also a change in the rules of language [Frege, by Dummett]
3000 Meaning holism is a crazy doctrine [Fodor]
2433 For holists no two thoughts are ever quite the same, which destroys faith in meaning [Fodor]
2477 If to understand "fish" you must know facts about them, where does that end? [Fodor]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
3003 Very different mental states can share their contents, so content doesn't seem to be constructed from functional role [Fodor]
12634 'Inferential-role semantics' says meaning is determined by role in inference [Fodor]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
2996 Mental states may have the same content but different extensions [Fodor]