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'Thought and Talk', 'Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics' and 'Thought and Reality'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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To know the truth-conditions of a sentence, you must already know the meaning [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A justificationist theory of meaning leads to the rejection of classical logic [Dummett]
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Verificationism could be realist, if we imagined the verification by a superhuman power [Dummett]
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If truths about the past depend on memories and current evidence, the past will change [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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We could only guess the meanings of 'true' and 'false' when sentences were used [Dummett]
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An understood sentence can be used for almost anything; it isn't language if it has only one use [Davidson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Sentences are the primary semantic units, because they can say something [Dummett]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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The pattern of sentences held true gives sentences their meaning [Davidson]
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