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'Concerning the Author', 'Psychosemantics' and 'Thought'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Speech acts, communication, representation and truth form a single theory [Harman]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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Grice thinks meaning is inherited from the propositional attitudes which sentences express [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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Whatever in the mind delivers falsehood is parasitic on what delivers truth [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Many different verification procedures can reach 'star', but it only has one semantic value [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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The meaning of a sentence derives from its use in expressing an attitude [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Meaning holism is a crazy doctrine [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
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Very different mental states can share their contents, so content doesn't seem to be constructed from functional role [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
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There is only similarity in meaning, never sameness in meaning [Harman]
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Mental states may have the same content but different extensions [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
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Ambiguity is when different underlying truth-conditional structures have the same surface form [Harman]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Truth in a language is explained by how the structural elements of a sentence contribute to its truth conditions [Harman]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Sentences are different from propositions, since two sentences can express one proposition [Harman]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic
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The analytic/synthetic distinction is a silly division of thought into encyclopaedia and dictionary [Harman]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Many predicates totally resist translation, so a universal underlying structure to languages is unlikely [Harman]
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