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'Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness', 'Truth and Meaning' and 'New system of communication of substances'
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
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You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / b. Propositions as possible worlds
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A proposition is a set of possible worlds for which its intension delivers truth [Perry]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic
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A sharp analytic/synthetic line can rarely be drawn, but some concepts are central to thought [Perry]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]
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