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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'Sickness unto Death' and 'A Priori'

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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]

19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference

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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

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Possible worlds semantics has a nice compositional account of modal statements [Mares]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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Unstructured propositions are sets of possible worlds; structured ones have components [Mares]