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Expansion for Language

1045 1. Philosophy
621 2. Reason
621 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1241 5. Theory of Logic
1188 6. Mathematics
1037 7. Existence
881 8. Modes of Existence
1522 9. Objects
797 10. Modality
483 11. Knowledge Aims
708 12. Knowledge Sources
631 13. Knowledge Criteria
672 14. Science
540 15. Nature of Minds
487 16. Persons
489 17. Mind and Body
851 18. Thought

833 19. Language
A. Nature of Meaning
30 1. Meaning
15 2. Meaning as Mental
9 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
33 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
36 5. Meaning as Verification
27 6. Meaning as Use
11 7. Meaning Holism a. Sentence meaning
16 b. Language holism
12 c. Meaning by Role
8 8. Synonymy
4 9. Ambiguity
14 10. Denial of Meanings
B. Reference
29 1. Reference theories
5 2. Denoting
11 3. Direct Reference a. Direct reference
22 b. Causal reference
12 c. Social reference
17 4. Descriptive Reference a. Sense and reference
25 b. Reference by description
12 5. Speaker's Reference
C. Assigning Meanings
9 1. Syntax
26 2. Semantics
25 3. Predicates
16 4. Compositionality
17 5. Fregean Semantics
15 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
8 7. Extensional Semantics
17 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
15 9. Indexical Semantics
20 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics
D. Propositions
33 1. Propositions
19 2. Abstract Propositions a. Propositions as sense
9 b. Propositions as possible worlds
14 3. Concrete Propositions
20 4. Mental Propositions
8 5. Unity of Propositions
15 6. Propositions Critique
E. Analyticity
20 1. Analytic Propositions
12 2. Analytic Truths
7 3. Analytic and Synthetic
17 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
F. Communication
23 1. Rhetoric
4 2. Assertion
10 3. Denial
21 4. Private Language
10 5. Pragmatics a. Contextual meaning
10 b. Implicature
5 c. Presupposition
6 6. Interpreting Language a. Translation
19 b. Indeterminate translation
21 c. Principle of charity
14 d. Metaphor

306 20. Action
262 21. Aesthetics
949 22. Metaethics
973 23. Ethics
906 24. Political Theory
743 25. Social Practice
991 26. Natural Theory
705 27. Natural Reality
428 28. God
294 29. Religion