Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, William Lycan and Thomas Mautner

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

7770	Truth conditions will come out the same for sentences with 'renate' or 'cordate' [Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

7773	A sentence's truth conditions is the set of possible worlds in which the sentence is true [Lycan]

7774	Possible worlds explain aspects of meaning neatly - entailment, for example, is the subset relation [Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

6899	The references of indexicals ('there', 'now', 'I') depend on the circumstances of utterance [Mautner]