Combining Texts
Ideas for
'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' and 'On Platonism in Mathematics'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
7 ideas
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
3181
|
A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be [Rey]
|
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
3204
|
The meaning of "and" may be its use, but not of "animal" [Rey]
|
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
3205
|
Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey]
|
19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
3209
|
Causal theories of reference (by 'dubbing') don't eliminate meanings in the heads of dubbers [Rey]
|
3210
|
If meaning and reference are based on causation, then virtually everything has meaning [Rey]
|
19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
3149
|
Referential Opacity says truth is lost when you substitute one referring term ('mother') for another ('Jocasta') [Rey]
|
19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
3169
|
A simple chaining device can't build sentences containing 'either..or', or 'if..then' [Rey]
|