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Ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'Nominalism and Realism' and 'Truth and Predication'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
The concept of truth can explain predication [Davidson]
Modern predicates have 'places', and are sentences with singular terms deleted from the places [Davidson]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
If you assign semantics to sentence parts, the sentence fails to compose a whole [Davidson]
19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
Top-down semantic analysis must begin with truth, as it is obvious, and explains linguistic usage [Davidson]