Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 58
Meaning/Grice: according to Grice there is a meaning only by the effect on the listener. - We have not only to discover the primary speaker's intention, but the listener should also think of something specific and intend it.
BlackVs: this is not sufficient and not necessary: it does not have to be true, even though the conditions are met, and may be true although they are not met.
I 77
The background can not be understood if the core ("it's snowing") is not understood.
Meaning/BlackVsGrice: Black thesis: it is not the detecting of the speaker's intention what causes an effect on the listener, allowing the hearer to determine the meaning, but rather the reverse: the discovery of the speaker meaning allows the listener to infer the speaker's intention. >Speaker's meaning, >Intentions, >Understanding.
Intention/Black: surely there could be no understanding without primitive situations in which a speaker's intention is recognized. - But that is no proof of the correctness of an intentionalist analysis.
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II 58
Meaning/Black: Meaning must be located beyond language for words to ever have a practical application. - E.g., Determine whether there is a color. - Differences between objects in the world are recognized along the scale of our language categories. >Classification, >Categories.
II 98
Meaning/Black: the "life of the words " is not in any "mental circumstances", but rather in the ability to interact with symbolic actions in relationship and for it to serve as a starting point. - Meaning can not be fixed to any feature of mental actions.
Brain-o-scope/Black: if we had such an instrument there would still remain the task of interpreting the images. >Interpretation.
II 211
Meaning/Putnam/Black: Meaning cannot be the object; e.g. "Titanic" would have no meaning any more. >Reference, >Non-existence.
Meaning need not be "in me" to be mine. - (( s)> Putnam:"meanings ain't in the head"). >Meaning/Putnam.