Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Understanding/compositionality/Peacocke: E.g. A single Russian phrase has been translated, so that we know "what Breschniev has said". - We do not understand this sentence, because we could not use the Russian words that we could perhaps not assign one-to-one to form Russian phrases ourselves - knowledge of what has been said, is not enough.
>Translation, >Vocabulary, >Sentences.
Compositionality: for conjunctions of sentences, we assume that if A & B are uttered, the speaker believes that q and that r - and it are common knowledge that the listener believes that the speaker ... etc.
>Compositionality.
For negation: that the speaker does not believe that p ... - in each case complete sentences that are bound in compound sentences.
>Negation, >Language use, >Language behavior, >Meaning, >Sense.
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Thought/belief/understanding/Peacocke: if someone understands a sentence, it is ambiguous what thoughts he expresses with it (underdetermined).
>Propositions, >Thoughts, >Beliefs.
The language is not rich enough - only the object is picked, not the intension.
>Intension, >Identification, >Objects.