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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'LOT 2' and 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics'

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 1. Syntax

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Syntactic form concerns the focus of the sentence, as well as the truth-conditions [Hofweber]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics

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Semantics (esp. referential semantics) allows inferences from utterances to the world [Fodor]

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Semantics relates to the world, so it is never just psychological [Fodor]

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

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Properties can be expressed in a language despite the absence of a single word for them [Hofweber]

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'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties [Hofweber]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

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Compositonality is a way to build up the truth-conditions of a sentence [Hofweber]