Ideas from 'Reality without Reference' by Donald Davidson [1977], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (2nd ed)' by Davidson,Donald [OUP 2001,0-19-924629-7]].
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning
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A minimum requirement for a theory of meaning is that it include an account of truth
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A theory of truth tells us how communication by language is possible
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19. Language / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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Is reference the key place where language and the world meet?
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With a holistic approach, we can give up reference in empirical theories of language
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19. Language / B. Reference / 4. Descriptive Reference / b. Reference by description
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To explain the reference of a name, you must explain its sentence-role, so reference can't be defined nonlinguistically
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