Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Eubulides, Scott Soames and Plato
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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To study meaning, study truth conditions, on the basis of syntax, and representation by the parts [Soames]
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Tarski's account of truth-conditions is too weak to determine meanings [Soames]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different [Soames]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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Semantic content is a proposition made of sentence constituents (not some set of circumstances) [Soames]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics
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Two-dimensionalism reinstates descriptivism, and reconnects necessity and apriority to analyticity [Soames]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
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We should use cognitive states to explain representational propositions, not vice versa [Soames]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Only a good philosopher can be a good speaker [Plato]
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The 'Republic' is a great work of rhetorical theory [Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
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Rhetoric can produce conviction, but not educate people about right and wrong [Plato]
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Plato's whole philosophy may be based on being duped by reification - a figure of speech [Benardete,JA on Plato]
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'Phaedrus' pioneers the notion of philosophical rhetoric [Lawson-Tancred on Plato]
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Rhetoric is irrational about its means and its ends [Plato]
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An excellent speech seems to imply a knowledge of the truth in the mind of the speaker [Plato]
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The question of whether or not to persuade comes before the science of persuasion [Plato]
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