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'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'works' and 'Representation and Reality'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Meaning and translation (which are needed to define truth) both presuppose the notion of reference [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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"Meaning is use" is not a definition of meaning [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Holism seems to make fixed definition more or less impossible [Putnam]
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Meaning holism tried to show that you can't get fixed meanings built out of observation terms [Putnam]
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Understanding a sentence involves background knowledge and can't be done in isolation [Putnam]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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Quine says there is no matter of fact about reference - it is 'inscrutable' [Quine, by O'Grady]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / a. Direct reference
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We should separate how the reference of 'gold' is fixed from its conceptual content [Putnam]
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Like names, natural kind terms have their meaning fixed by extension and reference [Putnam]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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Reference (say to 'elms') is a social phenomenon which we can leave to experts [Putnam]
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Aristotle implies that we have the complete concepts of a language in our heads, but we don't [Putnam]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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The principle of charity only applies to the logical constants [Quine, by Miller,A]
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