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'The Elm and the Expert', 'Internalism and Externalism: a History' and 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences [Fodor]
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If meaning is information, that establishes the causal link between the state of the world and our beliefs [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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The 'form' of the picture is its possible combinations [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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To understand a proposition means to know what is the case if it is true [Wittgenstein]
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To know the content of a thought is to know what would make it true [Fodor]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Good philosophy asserts science, and demonstrates the meaninglessness of metaphysics [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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For holists no two thoughts are ever quite the same, which destroys faith in meaning [Fodor]
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