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Ideas for 'Matter and Memory', 'New system of communication of substances' and 'Philosophy and the Nature of Language'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

4564	I can meaningfully speculate that humans may have experiences currently impossible for us [Cooper,DE]

4565	The verification principle itself seems neither analytic nor verifiable [Cooper,DE]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4562	Most people know how to use the word "Amen", but they do not know what it means [Cooper,DE]

4563	'How now brown cow?' is used for elocution, but this says nothing about its meaning [Cooper,DE]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

4566	Any thesis about reference is also a thesis about what exists to be referred to [Cooper,DE]

4571	Reference need not be a hit-or-miss affair [Cooper,DE]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates

4572	If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names [Cooper,DE]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths

4576	An analytic truth is one which becomes a logical truth when some synonyms have been replaced [Cooper,DE]