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Ideas for '', 'Mind and Its Place in Nature' and 'Aboutness'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Sentence-meaning is the truth-conditions - plus factors responsible for them [Yablo]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

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The content of an assertion can be quite different from compositional content [Yablo]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

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Truth-conditions as subject-matter has problems of relevance, short cut, and reversal [Yablo]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

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Not-A is too strong to just erase an improper assertion, because it actually reverses A [Yablo]

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We learn 'not' along with affirmation, by learning to either affirm or deny a sentence [Rumfitt]