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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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The meaning of "and" may be its use, but not of "animal" [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
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Causal theories of reference (by 'dubbing') don't eliminate meanings in the heads of dubbers [Rey]
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If meaning and reference are based on causation, then virtually everything has meaning [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
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Referential Opacity says truth is lost when you substitute one referring term ('mother') for another ('Jocasta') [Rey]
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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 / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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A simple chaining device can't build sentences containing 'either..or', or 'if..then' [Rey]
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