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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Thought: a Logical Enquiry' and 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology'

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

2744	Verificationism (the 'verification principle') is an earlier form of anti-realism [Dancy,J]

2760	Logical positivism implies foundationalism, by dividing weak from strong verifications [Dancy,J]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

2761	If the meanings of sentences depend on other sentences, how did we learn language? [Dancy,J]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / a. Propositions as sense

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A 'thought' is something for which the question of truth can arise; thoughts are senses of sentences [Frege]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 5. Unity of Propositions

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A sentence is only a thought if it is complete, and has a time-specification [Frege]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation

2763	There is an indeterminacy in juggling apparent meanings against probable beliefs [Dancy,J]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

2762	Charity makes native beliefs largely true, and Humanity makes them similar to ours [Dancy,J]