Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Hermarchus, Bertrand Russell and Scott Soames

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

6112	Meaning takes many different forms, depending on different logical types [Russell]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

15152

To study meaning, study truth conditions, on the basis of syntax, and representation by the parts [Soames]

15153

Tarski's account of truth-conditions is too weak to determine meanings [Soames]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification

13468

Russell started philosophy of language, by declaring some plausible sentences to be meaningless [Russell, by Hart,WD]

5388	Every understood proposition is composed of constituents with which we are acquainted [Russell]

6427	Unverifiable propositions about the remote past are still either true or false [Russell]