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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas [Locke]
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Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them [Locke]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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For the correct reference of complex ideas, we can only refer to experts [Locke]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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Since words are just conventional, we can represent our own ideas with any words we please [Locke]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Indeterminacy of translation also implies indeterminacy in interpreting people's mental states [Dennett on Quine]
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The firmer the links between sentences and stimuli, the less translations can diverge [Quine]
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We can never precisely pin down how to translate the native word 'Gavagai' [Quine]
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Stimulus synonymy of 'Gavagai' and 'Rabbit' does not even guarantee they are coextensive [Quine]
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Dispositions to speech behaviour, and actual speech, are never enough to fix any one translation [Quine]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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We should be suspicious of a translation which implies that a people have very strange beliefs [Quine]
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Weird translations are always possible, but they improve if we impose our own logic on them [Quine]
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