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'The Elm and the Expert', 'Truthmakers, Realism and Ontology' and 'The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic'
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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 / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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Stating a sentence's truth-conditions is just paraphrasing the sentence [Dummett]
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If a sentence is effectively undecidable, we can never know its truth conditions [Dummett]
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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 / 6. Meaning as Use
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Meaning as use puts use beyond criticism, and needs a holistic view of language [Dummett]
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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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