Correction: (max 500 charact.)
The complaint will not be published.
I 233
Circumstances/Quine: circumstances are important in ambiguities
I 317
That Socrates only applies to one person, is not accidental.
The general term comes from laws and not from circumstances.
I 391
Circumstances (of the utterance): is important for assessing the truthfulness.
II 61 ff
Stimulus circumstances: the whole of the outer forces is very vague. Solution: to ensure equality at various times (not the same people, not the same receptors).
X 112
Translation/Logic/logical constants/meaning/Radical Interpretation/Gavagai/Quine: e.g. analysis of a foreign language on the basis of behaviour.
Conjunction: if someone agrees with a composite sentence but not with one of its components, this is a reason not to take the composite sentence as a conjunction.
We force our logic upon the other by translating his/her language into ours.
We incorporate our logic into our rules of translation.
Circumstances: they are also built into the translation rules: For example, if someone does not agree to a certain sentence while it is raining, we are inclined not to translate that sentence as "it is raining". >
Translation/Quine .
X 128
QuineVsAnalyticity; it is a revelation in words.
Question: what are we actually getting at when we call a sentence true for analytical or purely linguistic reasons? If we ask the question this way, the analysis shifts to the new predicate "true by". Can we then identify decisive circumstances? Could we show that the proposition follows logically from these circumstances?
Vs: the logical truths follow from every proposition!