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'fragments/reports', 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology' and 'In a Critical Condition'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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It seems unlikely that meaning can be reduced to communicative intentions, or any mental states [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Verificationism (the 'verification principle') is an earlier form of anti-realism [Dancy,J]
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Logical positivism implies foundationalism, by dividing weak from strong verifications [Dancy,J]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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If the meanings of sentences depend on other sentences, how did we learn language? [Dancy,J]
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If to understand "fish" you must know facts about them, where does that end? [Fodor]
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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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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic
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Analysis is impossible without the analytic/synthetic distinction [Fodor]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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The theory of the content of thought as 'Mentalese' explains why the Private Language Argument doesn't work [Fodor]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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There is an indeterminacy in juggling apparent meanings against probable beliefs [Dancy,J]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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Charity makes native beliefs largely true, and Humanity makes them similar to ours [Dancy,J]
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