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'The Philosophy of Philosophy', 'The Statesman' and 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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It is troublesome nonsense to split statements into a linguistic and a factual component [Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
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'Renate' and 'cordate' have identical extensions, but are not synonymous [Quine, by Miller,A]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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Once meaning and reference are separated, meaning ceases to seem important [Quine]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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Analytic statements are either logical truths (all reinterpretations) or they depend on synonymy [Quine]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
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Did someone ever actually define 'bachelor' as 'unmarried man'? [Quine]
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Quine's attack on analyticity undermined linguistic views of necessity, and analytic views of the a priori [Quine, by Boghossian]
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Quine attacks the Fregean idea that we can define analyticity through synonyous substitution [Quine, by Thomasson]
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The last two parts of 'Two Dogmas' are much the best [Miller,A on Quine]
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Erasing the analytic/synthetic distinction got rid of meanings, and saved philosophy of language [Davidson on Quine]
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The analytic needs excessively small units of meaning and empirical confirmation [Quine, by Jenkins]
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If we try to define analyticity by synonymy, that leads back to analyticity [Quine]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato]
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