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All the ideas for 'Truth and Meaning', 'works' and 'Testability and Meaning'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

7332	There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity

3144	Everything is what it is, and not another thing [Butler]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

14305

In the truth-functional account a burnt-up match was soluble because it never entered water [Carnap]

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

7772	Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics

7327	Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

7769	You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan]

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

6179	Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson]