Lexicon of Arguments

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V 160
Sign/Interpretation/Quine: must not simply be reinterpreted, otherwise each string can have any meaning - N.B.: but terms can very well be reinterpreted. ((s) not signs).
>Interpretation, >Meaning.
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VII (c) 53
Meaning/Sign/Quine: it is unsatisfactory to say that a significant sequence is simply a series of phonemes that are uttered by a speaker of a chosen population. We do not only want the expressed sequences, but also those that may yet be expressed.
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IV 396
Sign/Locke: ...but for two reasons we also need signs, which in turn stand for ideas: for the exchange of our thoughts and for their recording. These are the words. Behind them stand the ideas, as it were, as guarantors of meaning. Without them, words would merely be sounds. Words:
are representatives of ideas.
IV 397
QuineVsLocke: one should stick to what is true for everyone when openly observed. Language is also not something private, but something social.
IV 398
Language: is a social skill acquired through the observation of social use.
The externalisation of empiricism leads to a behavioural approach to meaning. (Behaviorism).
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V 165
Infinite/Name/Signs/Quine: Problem: which signs should we use when we need infinitely many as insertions for the number variables? One cannot say that every sign is a physical object, because then they run out soon.
Wrong solution: to say that these signs are forms (as classes of inscriptions). Because these are again physical realizations of forms and there is not enough of them.
Form/Quine: (to denote infinitely many natural numbers) here also not in the sense of analytical geometry, so that a form would become a class of classes of pairs of real numbers, because it does not help to explain the numbers by means of number signs, which are themselves explained by means of real numbers.
>Infinity, >Numbers, >Denotation.

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