Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'What Price Bivalence?', 'On the Pragmatics of Communications' and 'Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood'

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5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 1. Bivalence
Bivalence applies not just to sentences, but that general terms are true or false of each object [Quine]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine]
Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language [Lewis]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
To understand language is to know how to use it to reach shared understandings [Habermas]