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Ideas for 'Folk Psychology', 'On What There Is' and 'Meaning'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention

7751	Meaning needs an intention to induce a belief, and a recognition that this is the speaker's intention [Grice]

7752	Only the utterer's primary intention is relevant to the meaning [Grice]

7753	We judge linguistic intentions rather as we judge non-linguistic intentions, so they are alike [Grice]

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

1619	There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

1617	The word 'meaning' is only useful when talking about significance or about synonymy [Quine]

1609	I do not believe there is some abstract entity called a 'meaning' which we can 'have' [Quine]