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'works', 'Representation and Reality' and 'Logic and Epistemology of Causal Relations'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Meaning and translation (which are needed to define truth) both presuppose the notion of reference [Putnam]
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Meanings depend on differences and contrasts [Derrida]
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For Aristotle all proper nouns must have a single sense, which is the purpose of language [Derrida]
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Capacity for repetitions is the hallmark of language [Derrida]
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The sign is only conceivable as a movement between elusive presences [Derrida]
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Writing functions even if the sender or the receiver are absent [Derrida, by Glendinning]
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Madness and instability ('the demonic hyperbole') lurks in all language [Derrida]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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"Meaning is use" is not a definition of meaning [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Meaning holism tried to show that you can't get fixed meanings built out of observation terms [Putnam]
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Understanding a sentence involves background knowledge and can't be done in isolation [Putnam]
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Holism seems to make fixed definition more or less impossible [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
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'Dissemination' is opposed to polysemia, since that is irreducible, because of multiple understandings [Derrida, by Glendinning]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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Words exist in 'spacing', so meanings are never synchronic except in writing [Derrida]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference
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We should separate how the reference of 'gold' is fixed from its conceptual content [Putnam]
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Like names, natural kind terms have their meaning fixed by extension and reference [Putnam]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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Aristotle implies that we have the complete concepts of a language in our heads, but we don't [Putnam]
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Reference (say to 'elms') is a social phenomenon which we can leave to experts [Putnam]
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