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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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The "Fido"-Fido theory of meaning says every expression in a language has a referent [Hofweber]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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The meaning of "and" may be its use, but not of "animal" [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
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Inferential role semantics is an alternative to semantics that connects to the world [Hofweber]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
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Causal theories of reference (by 'dubbing') don't eliminate meanings in the heads of dubbers [Rey]
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If meaning and reference are based on causation, then virtually everything has meaning [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
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Referential Opacity says truth is lost when you substitute one referring term ('mother') for another ('Jocasta') [Rey]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax
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Syntactic form concerns the focus of the sentence, as well as the truth-conditions [Hofweber]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Properties can be expressed in a language despite the absence of a single word for them [Hofweber]
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'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties [Hofweber]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Compositonality is a way to build up the truth-conditions of a sentence [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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A proposition is what can be asserted or denied on its own [Chrysippus]
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Proposition have no content, because they are content [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
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Without propositions there can be no beliefs or desires [Hofweber]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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Do there exist thoughts which we are incapable of thinking? [Hofweber]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / a. Contextual meaning
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'Semantic type coercion' is selecting the reading of a word to make the best sense [Hofweber]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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A simple chaining device can't build sentences containing 'either..or', or 'if..then' [Rey]
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'Background deletion' is appropriately omitting background from an answer [Hofweber]
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