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Ideas for 'works', 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature' and 'Conceptual truth and metaphysical necessity'

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5 ideas

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference

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One view says the causal story is built into the description that is the name's content [Stalnaker]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Two-D says that a posteriori is primary and contingent, and the necessity is the secondary intension [Stalnaker]

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In one view, the secondary intension is metasemantic, about how the thinker relates to the content [Stalnaker]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

3324	Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA on Plato]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]