Ideas from 'Semantic Necessity' by Kit Fine [2010], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Modality' (ed/tr Hale,B/Hoffman,A) [OUP 2010,]].
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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 8. Theories in Logic
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Theories in logic are sentences closed under consequence, but in truth discussions theories have axioms
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10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity
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The role of semantic necessity in semantics is like metaphysical necessity in metaphysics [Hale/Hoffmann,A]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth
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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics
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Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
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The Quinean doubt: are semantics and facts separate, and do analytic sentences have no factual part?
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