Philosophy 208: the Language Revolution Fall 2011
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چکیده
We have seen two kinds of attacks on meaning, both of which undermine the importance or even the existence of private mental states. Quine was skeptical about meanings, but not meaning. It does not follow from Quine’s work that sentences or utterances, or whatever, lack meaning. But Quine does undermine any precise account of reference. Given the inscrutability of reference which, recall, begins at home, our account of meaning would have to be mainly public.
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