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Ideas for '67: Platonic Questions', 'Why Propositions Aren't Truth-Supporting Circumstance' and 'From Metaphysics to Ethics'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

13965

Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates

6995	Successful predication supervenes on nature [Jackson]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

6989	I can understand "He has a beard", without identifying 'he', and hence the truth conditions [Jackson]

13964

Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]