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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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We understand conditionals, but disagree over their truth-conditions [Rumfitt]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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We still lack an agreed semantics for quantifiers in natural language [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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Possible world semantics may not reduce modality, but it can explain it [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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I take propositions to be truth conditions [Stalnaker]
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A theory of propositions at least needs primitive properties of consistency and of truth [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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Propositions presumably don't exist if the things they refer to don't exist [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA on Plato]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial
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The truth grounds for 'not A' are the possibilities incompatible with truth grounds for A [Rumfitt]
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