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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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The "Fido"-Fido theory of meaning says every expression in a language has a referent [Hofweber]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
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Inferential role semantics is an alternative to semantics that connects to the world [Hofweber]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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People presume meanings exist because they confuse meaning and reference [Orenstein]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax
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Syntactic form concerns the focus of the sentence, as well as the truth-conditions [Hofweber]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Three ways for 'Socrates is human' to be true are nominalist, platonist, or Montague's way [Orenstein]
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Properties can be expressed in a language despite the absence of a single word for them [Hofweber]
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'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties [Hofweber]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Compositonality is a way to build up the truth-conditions of a sentence [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Proposition have no content, because they are content [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
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Without propositions there can be no beliefs or desires [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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Do there exist thoughts which we are incapable of thinking? [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
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If two people believe the same proposition, this implies the existence of propositions [Orenstein]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths
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The notion of analytic truth is absent in Aristotle [Aristotle, by Politis]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / a. Contextual meaning
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'Semantic type coercion' is selecting the reading of a word to make the best sense [Hofweber]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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'Background deletion' is appropriately omitting background from an answer [Hofweber]
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