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'Commentary on 'De Anima'', 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' and 'Reality without Reference'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson]
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With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description
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To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson]
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