Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Melvin Fitting, A.J. Ayer and Jerry A. Fodor
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences [Fodor]
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If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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Grice thinks meaning is inherited from the propositional attitudes which sentences express [Fodor]
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It seems unlikely that meaning can be reduced to communicative intentions, or any mental states [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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Whatever in the mind delivers falsehood is parasitic on what delivers truth [Fodor]
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To know the content of a thought is to know what would make it true [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A sentence is factually significant to someone if they know how to verify its proposition [Ayer]
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Factual propositions imply (in conjunction with a few other premises) possible experiences [Ayer]
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Tautologies and empirical hypotheses form the entire class of significant propositions [Ayer]
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A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer]
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Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer]
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The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer]
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Many different verification procedures can reach 'star', but it only has one semantic value [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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The meaning of a sentence derives from its use in expressing an attitude [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Meaning holism is a crazy doctrine [Fodor]
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For holists no two thoughts are ever quite the same, which destroys faith in meaning [Fodor]
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If to understand "fish" you must know facts about them, where does that end? [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
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'Inferential-role semantics' says meaning is determined by role in inference [Fodor]
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Very different mental states can share their contents, so content doesn't seem to be constructed from functional role [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
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Mental states may have the same content but different extensions [Fodor]
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