Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, J Fodor / E Lepore and David Papineau
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Verificationists tend to infer indefinite answers from undecidable questions [Papineau]
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Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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Teleosemantics equates meaning with the item the concept is intended to track [Papineau]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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Truth conditions in possible worlds can't handle statements about impossibilities [Papineau]
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Thought content is possible worlds that make the thought true; if that includes the actual world, it's true [Papineau]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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The Private Language argument only means people may misjudge their experiences [Papineau]
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