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'The Nature of Things', 'Truth and Meaning' and 'A Defense of Presentism'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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'Grabby' truth conditions first select their object, unlike 'searchy' truth conditions [Markosian]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
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You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]
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