Lexicon of Arguments

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Brandom I 509
Content/Dummett/Brandom: Dummett distinguishes between free-standing and embedded contents. >Subsententials, >Word meaning, >Sentence meaning.
Truth value - Designatedness - freestanding content.
Multiple value: embedded content. >Terminology/Brandom.
I Brandom 510
The substitution mechanism is applied here to contents, not to forms.
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Dummett III (a) 42
Content/Dummett: Thesis: content is characterized by what would make an assertion appear to be misguided, not by what would prove it to be correct. -
Someone who asserts a conditional will not exactly rule out the falsity of the antecedent. - Our concepts of right and wrong are asymmetrical.
III (a) 43
Consequence of falsehood: withdrawal of the assertion - there are no clear consequence for correctness. >Correctness.

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