Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Paul Ricoeur, Michael Dummett and Anand Vaidya
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett]
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If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett]
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To know the truth-conditions of a sentence, you must already know the meaning [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Verification is not an individual but a collective activity [Dummett]
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A justificationist theory of meaning leads to the rejection of classical logic [Dummett]
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Verificationism could be realist, if we imagined the verification by a superhuman power [Dummett]
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If truths about the past depend on memories and current evidence, the past will change [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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We could only guess the meanings of 'true' and 'false' when sentences were used [Dummett]
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Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Sentences are the primary semantic units, because they can say something [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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Holism is not a theory of meaning; it is the denial that a theory of meaning is possible [Dummett]
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