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Ideas for 'works (fragments)', 'On What There Is' and 'Geometrical Method and Metaphysics'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

1773	A sentence always has signification, but a word by itself never does [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius]

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]