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Ideas for Hermarchus, John Dewey and Georges Rey
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16 ideas
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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The meaning of "and" may be its use, but not of "animal" [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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Semantic holism means new evidence for a belief changes the belief, and we can't agree on concepts [Rey]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy
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Externalist synonymy is there being a correct link to the same external phenomena [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / b. Causal reference
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Causal theories of reference (by 'dubbing') don't eliminate meanings in the heads of dubbers [Rey]
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If meaning and reference are based on causation, then virtually everything has meaning [Rey]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / a. Sense and reference
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Referential Opacity says truth is lost when you substitute one referring term ('mother') for another ('Jocasta') [Rey]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 1. Analytic Propositions
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'Married' does not 'contain' its symmetry, nor 'bigger than' its transitivity [Rey]
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Analytic judgements can't be explained by contradiction, since that is what is assumed [Rey]
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Analytic statements are undeniable (because of meaning), rather than unrevisable [Rey]
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The meaning properties of a term are those which explain how the term is typically used [Rey]
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An intrinsic language faculty may fix what is meaningful (as well as grammatical) [Rey]
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Research throws doubts on the claimed intuitions which support analyticity [Rey]
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19. Language / E. Analyticity / 4. Analytic/Synthetic Critique
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If we claim direct insight to what is analytic, how do we know it is not sub-consciously empirical? [Rey]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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Dewey argued long before Wittgenstein that there could not seriously be a private language [Dewey, by Orenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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A simple chaining device can't build sentences containing 'either..or', or 'if..then' [Rey]
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