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'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'The Elm and the Expert' and 'A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility'
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16 ideas
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences [Fodor]
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If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs [Fodor]
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Theory of meaning presupposes theory of understanding and reference [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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Truth conditions can't explain understanding a sentence, because that in turn needs explanation [Putnam]
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We should reject the view that truth is prior to meaning [Putnam]
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To know the content of a thought is to know what would make it true [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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For holists no two thoughts are ever quite the same, which destroys faith in meaning [Fodor]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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How reference is specified is not what reference is [Putnam]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
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It is claimed that reference doesn't fix sense (Jocasta), and sense doesn't fix reference (Twin Earth) [Fodor]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description
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The claim that scientific terms are incommensurable can be blocked if scientific terms are not descriptions [Putnam]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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Broad semantics holds that the basic semantic properties are truth and denotation [Fodor]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Externalist semantics are necessary to connect the contents of beliefs with how the world is [Fodor]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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A private language could work with reference and beliefs, and wouldn't need meaning [Putnam]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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The correct translation is the one that explains the speaker's behaviour [Putnam]
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Language maps the world in many ways (because it maps onto other languages in many ways) [Putnam]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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You can't say 'most speaker's beliefs are true'; in some areas this is not so, and you can't count beliefs [Putnam]
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