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Ideas for 'works', 'Truth (2nd edn)' and 'Causation'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

6338	We could know the truth-conditions of a foreign sentence without knowing its meaning [Horwich]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

6340	There are Fregean de dicto propositions, and Russellian de re propositions, or a mixture [Horwich]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / b. Propositions as possible worlds

8420	A proposition is a set of possible worlds where it is true [Lewis]

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 / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

6341	Right translation is a mapping of languages which preserves basic patterns of usage [Horwich]