10 ideas
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
6387 | A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth [Davidson] |
8212 | Everything that is experienced in consciousness is meaning [Derrida] |
6391 | A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible [Davidson] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
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] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
6389 | To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically [Davidson] |