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If sentences depend for their meaning on their structure, and we understand the meaning of each item in the structure only as an abstraction from the totality of sentences in which it features, then we can give the meaning of any sentence (or word) only...

Language, Agency, and Politics in a Constructed World - Page 54
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New Readings in Philosophical Analysis

Herbert Feigl, Wilfrid Sellars, Keith Lehrer - Philosophy - 1972 - 704 pages

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Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Language

Mark de Bretton Platts - Language and languages - 1979 - 296 pages

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Outline of a Nominalist Theory of Propositions: An Essay in the Theory of ...

Paul Gochet - Science - 1980 - 228 pages

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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Richard Rorty - History - 1980 - 422 pages

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Semantics and Social Science

Graham Macdonald, Philip Pettit - Social Science - 1981 - 194 pages

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Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

Donald Davidson - Language and languages - 1984 - 316 pages

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Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation

Donald Davidson - Language and languages - 1984 - 320 pages

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Communication and Reference

Aloysius Martinich - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1984 - 228 pages

...they occur" (Davidson (1967), p. 451). He goes on to say, "sentences depend for their meaning on their structure only as an abstraction from the totality of sentences in which it features (Davidson (1967), p. 454). Davidson gets this view from Tarski's theory of semantics for artificial...

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Recent Philosophers

John Arthur Passmore - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 196 pages

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Philosophie Des Geistes, Philosophie Der Psychologie

Roderick M. Chisholm - Philosophy - 1985 - 672 pages

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