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Ideas for 'Thinking About Mathematics', 'On What There Is' and 'The Central Questions of Philosophy'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

1619	There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings

1617	The word 'meaning' is only useful when talking about significance or about synonymy [Quine]

1609	I do not believe there is some abstract entity called a 'meaning' which we can 'have' [Quine]

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]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique

2610	Talk of propositions is just shorthand for talking about equivalent sentences [Ayer]