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Ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato' and 'Representation and Reality'

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

2346	Meaning and translation (which are needed to define truth) both presuppose the notion of reference [Putnam]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

2354	"Meaning is use" is not a definition of meaning [Putnam]

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

2336	Holism seems to make fixed definition more or less impossible [Putnam]

2334	Meaning holism tried to show that you can't get fixed meanings built out of observation terms [Putnam]

2335	Understanding a sentence involves background knowledge and can't be done in isolation [Putnam]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference

2340	We should separate how the reference of 'gold' is fixed from its conceptual content [Putnam]

2341	Like names, natural kind terms have their meaning fixed by extension and reference [Putnam]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

2338	Reference (say to 'elms') is a social phenomenon which we can leave to experts [Putnam]

2339	Aristotle implies that we have the complete concepts of a language in our heads, but we don't [Putnam]