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'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Truth and Predication' and 'Thought and Talk'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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If we reject corresponding 'facts', we should also give up the linked idea of 'representations' [Davidson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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You only understand an order if you know what it is to obey it [Davidson]
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Utterances have the truth conditions intended by the speaker [Davidson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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Meaning involves use, but a sentence has many uses, while meaning stays fixed [Davidson]
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An understood sentence can be used for almost anything; it isn't language if it has only one use [Davidson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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We recognise sentences at once as linguistic units; we then figure out their parts [Davidson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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The pattern of sentences held true gives sentences their meaning [Davidson]
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