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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophy of Language' and 'Semantic Necessity'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth [Fine,K]

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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values [Fine,K]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

7770	Truth conditions will come out the same for sentences with 'renate' or 'cordate' [Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics

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Referential semantics (unlike Fregeanism) allows objects themselves in to semantic requirements [Fine,K]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

7773	A sentence's truth conditions is the set of possible worlds in which the sentence is true [Lycan]

7774	Possible worlds explain aspects of meaning neatly - entailment, for example, is the subset relation [Lycan]