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Ideas for 'German Philosophy: a very short introduction', 'Toward a Philosophy of History' and 'The Elm and the Expert'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

2439	Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences [Fodor]

2457	If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs [Fodor]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

2451	To know the content of a thought is to know what would make it true [Fodor]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

2433	For holists no two thoughts are ever quite the same, which destroys faith in meaning [Fodor]