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'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'Philosophy of Language' and 'Philosophy of Chemistry'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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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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The truth conditions theory sees meaning as representation [Lycan]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Meaning must be known before we can consider verification [Lycan]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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Could I successfully use an expression, without actually understanding it? [Lycan]
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It is hard to state a rule of use for a proper name [Lycan]
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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 / 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 / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Truth conditions will come out the same for sentences with 'renate' or 'cordate' [Lycan]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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A sentence's truth conditions is the set of possible worlds in which the sentence is true [Lycan]
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Possible worlds explain aspects of meaning neatly - entailment, for example, is the subset relation [Lycan]
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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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