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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

"Shaggy" means shaggy

From online critical study of Horwich's _Meaning_ (contra Davidson):

http://www.uea.ac.uk/~j108/Horwich.htm

"Horwich thinks that a theory of meaning should account for facts such as

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"dog" means DOG.

"That is, Horwich wants a theory of meaning-constituting properties; in our example, the property of the English word-type dog that constitutes the fact that it means DOG."

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