Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Demonstratives', 'An Enquiry' and 'What is innate and why'

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5 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

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We treat testimony with a natural trade off of belief and caution [Reid, by Fricker,M]

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2605	If everything uses mentalese, ALL concepts must be innate! [Putnam]

2606	No machine language can express generalisations [Putnam]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics

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Indexicals have a 'character' (the standing meaning), and a 'content' (truth-conditions for one context) [Kaplan, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

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'Content' gives the standard modal profile, and 'character' gives rules for a context [Kaplan, by Schroeter]