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'Unconscious Cerebral Initiative', 'Thinking about Consciousness' and 'Phaedrus'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Verificationists tend to infer indefinite answers from undecidable questions [Papineau]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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Teleosemantics equates meaning with the item the concept is intended to track [Papineau]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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Truth conditions in possible worlds can't handle statements about impossibilities [Papineau]
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Thought content is possible worlds that make the thought true; if that includes the actual world, it's true [Papineau]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker [Plato]
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'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
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An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker [Plato]
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