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Ideas for 'The Philosophy of Philosophy', 'The German Ideology' and 'On What There Is'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention

5280	Language co-exists with consciousness, and makes it social [Marx/Engels]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

9595	You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson]

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

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

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