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'works', 'Representation and Reality' and 'The Life of Reason'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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Meaning and translation (which are needed to define truth) both presuppose the notion of reference [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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"Meaning is use" is not a definition of meaning [Putnam]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Meaning holism tried to show that you can't get fixed meanings built out of observation terms [Putnam]
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Understanding a sentence involves background knowledge and can't be done in isolation [Putnam]
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Holism seems to make fixed definition more or less impossible [Putnam]
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