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'Parmenides', 'On What There Is' and 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature'
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8 ideas
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Nature has no preferred way of being represented [Rorty]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine]
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Can meanings remain the same when beliefs change? [Rorty]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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I do not believe there is some abstract entity called a 'meaning' which we can 'have' [Quine]
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The word 'meaning' is only useful when talking about significance or about synonymy [Quine]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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A theory of reference seems needed to pick out objects without ghostly inner states [Rorty]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Quine relates predicates to their objects, by being 'true of' them [Quine, by Davidson]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Davidson's theory of meaning focuses not on terms, but on relations between sentences [Rorty]
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