Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'Mind and Body' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
15 ideas
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 / 2. Meaning as Mental
|
7716
|
Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas [Locke]
|
|
7308
|
Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them [Locke]
|
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 / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
|
4999
|
For behaviourists language is just a special kind of behaviour [Kirk,R]
|
19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
|
6271
|
How reference is specified is not what reference is [Putnam]
|
|
4995
|
Behaviourists doubt whether reference is a single type of relation [Kirk,R]
|
19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
|
12524
|
For the correct reference of complex ideas, we can only refer to experts [Locke]
|
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 / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
|
6279
|
A private language could work with reference and beliefs, and wouldn't need meaning [Putnam]
|
|
15991
|
Since words are just conventional, we can represent our own ideas with any words we please [Locke]
|
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]
|