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Ideas for 'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes' and 'Syntactic Structure'

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

9471	Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised [Quine]

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

23646

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

23645

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

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

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Syntax is independent of semantics; sentences can be well formed but meaningless [Chomsky, by Magidor]