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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A thought is not psychological, but a condition of the world that makes a sentence true [Frege, by Miller,A]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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I can meaningfully speculate that humans may have experiences currently impossible for us [Cooper,DE]
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The verification principle itself seems neither analytic nor verifiable [Cooper,DE]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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'How now brown cow?' is used for elocution, but this says nothing about its meaning [Cooper,DE]
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Most people know how to use the word "Amen", but they do not know what it means [Cooper,DE]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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Reference need not be a hit-or-miss affair [Cooper,DE]
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Any thesis about reference is also a thesis about what exists to be referred to [Cooper,DE]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names [Cooper,DE]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Frege's 'sense' is the strict and literal meaning, stripped of tone [Frege, by Miller,A]
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'Sense' solves the problems of bearerless names, substitution in beliefs, and informativeness [Frege, by Miller,A]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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'P or not-p' seems to be analytic, but does not fit Kant's account, lacking clear subject or predicate [Frege, by Weiner]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths
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Analytic truths are those that can be demonstrated using only logic and definitions [Frege, by Miller,A]
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An analytic truth is one which becomes a logical truth when some synonyms have been replaced [Cooper,DE]
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