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'Actualism and Possible Worlds', 'Infinity: Quest to Think the Unthinkable' and 'Grundlagen der Arithmetik (Foundations)'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Words in isolation seem to have ideas as meanings, but words have meaning in propositions [Frege]
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Never ask for the meaning of a word in isolation, but only in the context of a proposition [Frege]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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Plantinga has domains of sets of essences, variables denoting essences, and predicates as functions [Plantinga, by Stalnaker]
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Plantinga's essences have their own properties - so will have essences, giving a hierarchy [Stalnaker on Plantinga]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Are propositions and states of affairs two separate things, or only one? I incline to say one [Plantinga]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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A statement is analytic if substitution of synonyms can make it a logical truth [Frege, by Boghossian]
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Frege considered analyticity to be an epistemic concept [Frege, by Shapiro]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths
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All analytic truths can become logical truths, by substituting definitions or synonyms [Frege, by Rey]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
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Frege fails to give a concept of analyticity, so he fails to explain synthetic a priori truth that way [Katz on Frege]
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