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Ideas for 'Why coherence is not enough', 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology' and 'The Theory of Communicative Action'

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

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To understand a statement is to know what would make it acceptable [Habermas]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention

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Meaning is not fixed by a relation to the external world, but a relation to other speakers [Habermas, by Finlayson]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

2744	Verificationism (the 'verification principle') is an earlier form of anti-realism [Dancy,J]

2760	Logical positivism implies foundationalism, by dividing weak from strong verifications [Dancy,J]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

2761	If the meanings of sentences depend on other sentences, how did we learn language? [Dancy,J]

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

2763	There is an indeterminacy in juggling apparent meanings against probable beliefs [Dancy,J]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

2762	Charity makes native beliefs largely true, and Humanity makes them similar to ours [Dancy,J]