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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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Meaning needs an intention to induce a belief, and a recognition that this is the speaker's intention [Grice]
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Only the utterer's primary intention is relevant to the meaning [Grice]
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We judge linguistic intentions rather as we judge non-linguistic intentions, so they are alike [Grice]
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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 / 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 / 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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