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'Parmenides', 'fragments/reports' and 'On What There Is'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism
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There is an attempt to give a verificationist account of meaning, without the error of reducing everything to sensations [Dennett on Quine]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings
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The word 'meaning' is only useful when talking about significance or about synonymy [Quine]
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I do not believe there is some abstract entity called a 'meaning' which we can 'have' [Quine]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Quine relates predicates to their objects, by being 'true of' them [Quine, by Davidson]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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9866
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Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]
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Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]
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