Meaning, reference, truth, and communication
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Goodness is a non-natural property
Indicative conditionals are context-dependent strict conditionals
Knowledge-how is not knowledge-that
Not all speech acts have a direction of fit
On the propositional view, propositional content has primacy over its parts.
The Inheritance View is false.
The parties' legal intentions can come apart from their semantic intentions.
The proponent loses the play.
The sophism 'Every proposition is false' is true
The two approaches to subject-predicate relations correspond to two historical traditions in logic.
There are two ways of conceiving the relation of subject and predicate in a judgment.
There exists at least one 'truth in itself'.
Utterances are an unsuitable subject matter for logical investigation.
"A is a" is false if A is a general or an empty term
"I" does not function like a demonstrative
"I" is an indexical expression.
"I" is not a referring expression
"If A, B" is true at world w if and only if B is true at F(A, w), the nearest A-world to w
"Socrates is necessarily running" is the only genuinely modal construction among the three considered
"Water is not H2O" is a metaphysical possibility.
"watch" (noun) and "watch" (verb) are not the same word
'1/0 = 1/0' is automatically true under a bivalent positive semantics
'A can be B' does not necessarily follow from 'A is B'
'Antichrist' is not a singular term
'Aristotle' cannot be a proper singular term when uttered by someone for whom Aristotle is a figure in the distant past
'Because' does not give a non-truth-functional dimension to the truth conditions of explanatory statements like (28).
'Biden might have had three arms' should be analyzed as stating that there is a world containing a three-armed counterpart of Biden.
'Cordate' and 'renate' have different intensions despite sharing the same actual-world reference.
'Every planet lighting our hemisphere can be the sun' is false even though it is in fact the sun which lights our hemisphere
'Every' can be treated as a predicate satisfied by ordered pairs ⟨X, Y⟩ such that the extension of X includes the extension of Y.
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
proposition
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
semantics
The domain that concerns the facts about what meanings words or phrases have.
Ontology
The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
utterance
A concrete event (an utterance-token), as opposed to an abstract utterance-type.
epistemology
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
concept
A mental representation formed from copies of sensory representations, assembled in accordance with general-purpose learning rules.
ontological commitment
The criterion by which acceptance of a sentence as literally true commits one to the existence of the objects referred to by singular terms in that sentence, provided the sentence cannot be paraphrased away.
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