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'To be is to be the value of a variable..', 'Are there propositions?' and 'Word and Object'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Husserl and Meinong wanted objective Meanings and Propositions, as subject-matter for Logic [Ryle]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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When I utter a sentence, listeners grasp both my meaning and my state of mind [Ryle]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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'Propositions' name what is thought, because 'thoughts' and 'judgments' are too ambiguous [Ryle]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
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Several people can believe one thing, or make the same mistake, or share one delusion [Ryle]
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We may think in French, but we don't know or believe in French [Ryle]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique
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There are no propositions; they are just sentences, used for thinking, which link to facts in a certain way [Ryle]
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If we accept true propositions, it is hard to reject false ones, and even nonsensical ones [Ryle]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Indeterminacy of translation also implies indeterminacy in interpreting people's mental states [Dennett on Quine]
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The firmer the links between sentences and stimuli, the less translations can diverge [Quine]
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We can never precisely pin down how to translate the native word 'Gavagai' [Quine]
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Stimulus synonymy of 'Gavagai' and 'Rabbit' does not even guarantee they are coextensive [Quine]
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Dispositions to speech behaviour, and actual speech, are never enough to fix any one translation [Quine]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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We should be suspicious of a translation which implies that a people have very strange beliefs [Quine]
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Weird translations are always possible, but they improve if we impose our own logic on them [Quine]
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