8 ideas
19043 | Bivalence applies not just to sentences, but that general terms are true or false of each object [Quine] |
7332 | There is a huge range of sentences of which we do not know the logical form [Davidson] |
19042 | Terms learned by ostension tend to be vague, because that must be quick and unrefined [Quine] |
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] |
5845 | Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon] |