8 ideas
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
18702 | Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
6387 | A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson] |
6391 | A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson] |
6388 | Is reference the key place where language and the world meet? [Davidson] |
6390 | With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language [Davidson] |
6389 | To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson] |