Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, John Cottingham and Colin McGinn
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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If meaning is speaker's intentions, it can be reduced to propositional attitudes, and philosophy of mind [McGinn]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Semantics should not be based on set-membership, but on instantiation of properties in objects [McGinn]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics
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There is information if there are symbols which refer, and which can combine into a truth or falsehood [McGinn]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics
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Clearly predicates have extensions (applicable objects), but are the extensions part of their meaning? [McGinn]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics
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I can know indexical truths a priori, unlike their non-indexical paraphrases [McGinn]
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