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Ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences' and 'The Statesman'

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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

283	The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato]

19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language

6279	A private language could work with reference and beliefs, and wouldn't need meaning [Putnam]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6270	The correct translation is the one that explains the speaker's behaviour [Putnam]

6283	Language maps the world in many ways (because it maps onto other languages in many ways) [Putnam]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6275	You can't say 'most speaker's beliefs are true'; in some areas this is not so, and you can't count beliefs [Putnam]