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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'In Defense of a Dogma' and 'Philosophy and the Nature of Language'

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

4564	I can meaningfully speculate that humans may have experiences currently impossible for us [Cooper,DE]

4565	The verification principle itself seems neither analytic nor verifiable [Cooper,DE]

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

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

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

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

7319	If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense [Grice/Strawson]