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Ideas for '', 'Word and Object' and 'Letters to Regius'

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19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

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

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

3988	Indeterminacy of translation also implies indeterminacy in interpreting people's mental states [Dennett on Quine]

6311	The firmer the links between sentences and stimuli, the less translations can diverge [Quine]

6312	We can never precisely pin down how to translate the native word 'Gavagai' [Quine]

6313	Stimulus synonymy of 'Gavagai' and 'Rabbit' does not even guarantee they are coextensive [Quine]

6317	Dispositions to speech behaviour, and actual speech, are never enough to fix any one translation [Quine]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6315	We should be suspicious of a translation which implies that a people have very strange beliefs [Quine]

6314	Weird translations are always possible, but they improve if we impose our own logic on them [Quine]