Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 5
Belief/wishes/intension/Millikan: can be explained without reference to language.
>Intentionality, >Intensionality, >Belief, >Language and Thought, >World/Thinking.
I 111
Intension/Millikan: intension is something quite different from Fregean sense.
>Fregean sense.
It is not a rule, but an application criterion, relative to the speaker's state. We must take into account the speaker and his mechanisms. Its dispositions and its justification for the use of an icon.
>Icon/Millikan, >Criteria.
I 112
Intension: has therefore to do with causation and justification of utterances.
Sense/Fregean Sense/Millikan: sense has nothing to do with the particular speaker and his situation, one does not have to know how he comes to map something, just how something is mapped.
Meaning/Intension/Millikan: Difference: e.g. Pegasus: has an intension, but as an empty name it can have no (Fregean) sense.
Adjective: correspondingly: "bewitched" has no sense, but intension.
I 143
Intension/Concept/Language/Quine/Millikan: our concepts cannot be based on intensions, and these in turn on other intensions etc.
Intrusive information/Quine: then we would be dealing with "intrusive information".
Quine: everything would always have to be tested at once.