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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts [Derrida]
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language [Derrida]
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language [Derrida]
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences [Derrida]
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent [Derrida, by Glendinning]
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I don't accept that if a proposition is directly about an entity, it has a relation to the entity [Merricks]
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language [Derrida]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A sentence's truth conditions depend on context [Merricks]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
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'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings [Derrida, by Glendinning]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing [Derrida]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Propositions are standardly treated as possible worlds, or as structured [Merricks]
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'Cicero is an orator' represents the same situation as 'Tully is an orator', so they are one proposition [Merricks]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
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Propositions are necessary existents which essentially (but inexplicably) represent things [Merricks]
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True propositions existed prior to their being thought, and might never be thought [Merricks]
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The standard view of propositions says they never change their truth-value [Merricks]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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Propositions can be 'about' an entity, but that doesn't make the entity a constituent of it [Merricks]
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Early Russell says a proposition is identical with its truthmaking state of affairs [Merricks]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 5. Unity of Propositions
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Unity of the proposition questions: what unites them? can the same constituents make different ones? [Merricks]
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We want to explain not just what unites the constituents, but what unites them into a proposition [Merricks]
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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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