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Ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'Thought' and 'Metaphysical conseqs of principle of reason'

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

3078	Speech acts, communication, representation and truth form a single theory [Harman]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

3090	There is only similarity in meaning, never sameness in meaning [Harman]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity

3082	Ambiguity is when different underlying truth-conditional structures have the same surface form [Harman]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

3079	Truth in a language is explained by how the structural elements of a sentence contribute to its truth conditions [Harman]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

3085	Sentences are different from propositions, since two sentences can express one proposition [Harman]

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic

3087	The analytic/synthetic distinction is a silly division of thought into encyclopaedia and dictionary [Harman]

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

3083	Many predicates totally resist translation, so a universal underlying structure to languages is unlikely [Harman]