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Ideas for 'Truth and the Past', 'Introduction to 'Language Truth and Logic'' and 'Inventing Logical Necessity'

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

5164	A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer]

8193	Verification is not an individual but a collective activity [Dummett]

5165	Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer]

5166	The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

7320	Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

8189	Truth-condition theorists must argue use can only be described by appeal to conditions of truth [Dummett]

8191	The truth-conditions theory must get agreement on a conception of truth [Dummett]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

5162	Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer]