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'Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects', 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' and 'Sophistical Refutations'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Nature has no preferred way of being represented [Rorty]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A milder claim is that understanding requires some evidence of that understanding [Wright,C]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Can meanings remain the same when beliefs change? [Rorty]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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A theory of reference seems needed to pick out objects without ghostly inner states [Rorty]
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If apparent reference can mislead, then so can apparent lack of reference [Wright,C]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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We can accept Frege's idea of object without assuming that predicates have a reference [Wright,C]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Davidson's theory of meaning focuses not on terms, but on relations between sentences [Rorty]
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