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Ideas for 'Set Theory', 'Thought and Reality' and 'Knowledge and the State of Nature'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

8168	To know the truth-conditions of a sentence, you must already know the meaning [Dummett]

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

8181	A justificationist theory of meaning leads to the rejection of classical logic [Dummett]

8182	Verificationism could be realist, if we imagined the verification by a superhuman power [Dummett]

8183	If truths about the past depend on memories and current evidence, the past will change [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

8176	We could only guess the meanings of 'true' and 'false' when sentences were used [Dummett]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

8170	Sentences are the primary semantic units, because they can say something [Dummett]