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Ideas for 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'Function and Concept' and 'works'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

6282	Theory of meaning presupposes theory of understanding and reference [Putnam]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

6281	Truth conditions can't explain understanding a sentence, because that in turn needs explanation [Putnam]

6278	We should reject the view that truth is prior to meaning [Putnam]

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

6271	How reference is specified is not what reference is [Putnam]

19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description

6268	The claim that scientific terms are incommensurable can be blocked if scientific terms are not descriptions [Putnam]

19. Language / B. Reference / 5. Speaker's Reference

4972	I may regard a thought about Phosphorus as true, and the same thought about Hesperus as false [Frege]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

6279	A private language could work with reference and beliefs, and wouldn't need meaning [Putnam]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6270	The correct translation is the one that explains the speaker's behaviour [Putnam]

6283	Language maps the world in many ways (because it maps onto other languages in many ways) [Putnam]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6275	You can't say 'most speaker's beliefs are true'; in some areas this is not so, and you can't count beliefs [Putnam]