Ideas of David E. Cooper, by Theme

[British, fl. 1973, Professor at the University of Durham.]

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5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 2. Descriptions / c. Theory of definite descriptions

4568	If 'Queen of England' does not refer if there is no queen, its meaning can't refer if there is one

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

4574	If some peoples do not have categories like time or cause, they can't be essential features of rationality

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

4573	If it is claimed that language correlates with culture, we must be able to identify the two independently

4575	A person's language doesn't prove their concepts, but how are concepts deduced apart from language?

17. Mind and Body / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour

4561	Many sentences set up dispositions which are irrelevant to the meanings of the sentences

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

4564	I can meaningfully speculate that humans may have experiences currently impossible for us

4565	The verification principle itself seems neither analytic nor verifiable

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4563	'How now brown cow?' is used for elocution, but this says nothing about its meaning

4562	Most people know how to use the word "Amen", but they do not know what it means

19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories

4566	Any thesis about reference is also a thesis about what exists to be referred to

4571	Reference need not be a hit-or-miss affair

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates

4572	If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names

19. Language / E. Analyticity / 2. Analytic Truths

4576	An analytic truth is one which becomes a logical truth when some synonyms have been replaced