Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'True Method in Philosophy and Theology', 'Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference' and 'Semantics for Natural Languages'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

19393

What is not active is nothing [Leibniz]

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

15160

Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

14612

Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

22244

'Partial reference' is when the subject thinks two objects are one object [Field,H, by Recanati]