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Ideas for Eubulides, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Miranda Fricker

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19 ideas

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
23450 Wittgenstein rejected his earlier view that the form of language is the form of the world [Wittgenstein, by Morris,M]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
23482 The 'form' of the picture is its possible combinations [Wittgenstein]
23481 Propositions assemble a world experimentally, like the model of a road accident [Wittgenstein]
18283 Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
8172 To understand a proposition means to know what is the case if it is true [Wittgenstein]
18725 A proposition draws a line around the facts which agree with it [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
18282 You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein]
18728 The meaning of a proposition is the mode of its verification [Wittgenstein]
7086 Good philosophy asserts science, and demonstrates the meaninglessness of metaphysics [Wittgenstein]
4150 Asking about verification is only one way of asking about the meaning of a proposition [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
6567 For Wittgenstein, words are defined by their use, just as chess pieces are [Wittgenstein, by Fogelin]
6169 We do not achieve meaning and understanding in our heads, but in the world [Wittgenstein, by Rowlands]
4155 We all seem able to see quite clearly how sentences represent things when we use them [Wittgenstein]
4137 In the majority of cases the meaning of a word is its use in the language [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
18705 Words function only in propositions, like levers in a machine [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
4142 To understand a sentence means to understand a language [Wittgenstein]
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
4721 If you are not certain of any fact, you cannot be certain of the meaning of your words either [Wittgenstein]
4149 We don't have 'meanings' in our minds in addition to verbal expressions [Wittgenstein]
4156 Make the following experiment: say "It's cold here" and mean "It's warm here" [Wittgenstein]