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VII 440
VsVerificationism: verificationism must say that we understand sentences about the past by asking how we will verify them in the future. >Meaning Change, >Theory Change, >Confirmation.
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V 145
Verificationism/Putnam: the methods of verification have been institutionalized by modern society.
>Convention.
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I 52
Def meaning/Price: the meaning of a mental view is identical to the sum of its practical consequences.
Putnam: this leads to verificationism.
>Meaning, >Content.
I 53
Argument of the open question/Putnam: what does an expression mean if it means more than that we will have certain experiences (position of verificationism)?
PutnamVs: the verificationist talks here as if he/she had succeeded in translating our everyday language into a special sensualist language.
But one should not demand that every word of the thing speech (thing language) has the same meaning in the sensual language.
Verificationism/Putnam: verificationism is a phenomenalism at its core.
>Phenomenalism.

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