Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, H. Paul Grice and Trenton Merricks
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19 ideas
19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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I don't accept that if a proposition is directly about an entity, it has a relation to the entity [Merricks]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 3. Meaning as Speaker's Intention
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Meaning needs an intention to induce a belief, and a recognition that this is the speaker's intention [Grice]
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Only the utterer's primary intention is relevant to the meaning [Grice]
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We judge linguistic intentions rather as we judge non-linguistic intentions, so they are alike [Grice]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A sentence's truth conditions depend on context [Merricks]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
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Grice said patterns of use are often semantically irrelevant, because it is a pragmatic matter [Grice, by Glock]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Propositions are standardly treated as possible worlds, or as structured [Merricks]
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'Cicero is an orator' represents the same situation as 'Tully is an orator', so they are one proposition [Merricks]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense
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Propositions are necessary existents which essentially (but inexplicably) represent things [Merricks]
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True propositions existed prior to their being thought, and might never be thought [Merricks]
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The standard view of propositions says they never change their truth-value [Merricks]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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Propositions can be 'about' an entity, but that doesn't make the entity a constituent of it [Merricks]
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Early Russell says a proposition is identical with its truthmaking state of affairs [Merricks]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 5. Unity of Propositions
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Unity of the proposition questions: what unites them? can the same constituents make different ones? [Merricks]
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We want to explain not just what unites the constituents, but what unites them into a proposition [Merricks]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
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Grice's maxim of quality says do not assert what you believe to be false [Grice, by Magidor]
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Grice's maxim of manner requires one to be as brief as possible [Grice, by Magidor]
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Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]
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Grice's maxim of quantity says be sufficiently informative [Grice, by Magidor]
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