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'Ethics without Principles', 'Philosophy of Language' and 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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The truth conditions theory sees meaning as representation [Lycan]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Meaning must be known before we can consider verification [Lycan]
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A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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Could I successfully use an expression, without actually understanding it? [Lycan]
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The meaning of "and" may be its use, but not of "animal" [Rey]
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It is hard to state a rule of use for a proper name [Lycan]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
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Causal theories of reference (by 'dubbing') don't eliminate meanings in the heads of dubbers [Rey]
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If meaning and reference are based on causation, then virtually everything has meaning [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
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Referential Opacity says truth is lost when you substitute one referring term ('mother') for another ('Jocasta') [Rey]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Truth conditions will come out the same for sentences with 'renate' or 'cordate' [Lycan]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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A sentence's truth conditions is the set of possible worlds in which the sentence is true [Lycan]
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Possible worlds explain aspects of meaning neatly - entailment, for example, is the subset relation [Lycan]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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A simple chaining device can't build sentences containing 'either..or', or 'if..then' [Rey]
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