9 ideas
14231 | We should always apply someone's theory of meaning to their own utterances [Liggins] |
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
14232 | We normally formalise 'There are Fs' with singular quantification and predication, but this may be wrong [Liggins] |
16650 | 'Unity' is a particularly difficult word, because things can have hidden unity [Duns Scotus] |
14233 | Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys [Liggins] |
7772 | Compositionality explains how long sentences work, and truth conditions are the main compositional feature [Davidson, by Lycan] |
7327 | Davidson thinks Frege lacks an account of how words create sentence-meaning [Davidson, by Miller,A] |
7769 | You can state truth-conditions for "I am sick now" by relativising it to a speaker at a time [Davidson, by Lycan] |
6179 | Should we assume translation to define truth, or the other way around? [Blackburn on Davidson] |