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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)' and 'Thought'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Speech acts, communication, representation and truth form a single theory [Harman]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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Words were devised as signs for inner ideas, and their basic meaning is those ideas [Locke]
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Words stand for the ideas in the mind of him that uses them [Locke]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
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There is only similarity in meaning, never sameness in meaning [Harman]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 9. Ambiguity
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Ambiguity is when different underlying truth-conditional structures have the same surface form [Harman]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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For the correct reference of complex ideas, we can only refer to experts [Locke]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Truth in a language is explained by how the structural elements of a sentence contribute to its truth conditions [Harman]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Sentences are different from propositions, since two sentences can express one proposition [Harman]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 3. Analytic and Synthetic
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The analytic/synthetic distinction is a silly division of thought into encyclopaedia and dictionary [Harman]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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Since words are just conventional, we can represent our own ideas with any words we please [Locke]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Many predicates totally resist translation, so a universal underlying structure to languages is unlikely [Harman]
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