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Understanding, Representation, Information
In Language, Names, and Information. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 30–60 (2010)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: Some stage setting on the value of understanding words and plans Agreement and shared understandings Davidson's challenge to representation Are we confusing semantics and pragmatics? Why we need possible worlds Voyages through logical space How to finesse the issue in analytic ontology The need for centered worlds Getting information from sentences with centered content Saying things a new now that centering is in the story Where to now?
understanding, representation and information value of understanding words and plans value of being able to read plans ‐ knowing how things would have to be to be in accord with plans agreement and shared understandings complex web of interactions and dependences ‐ holding a linguistic or conceptual practice together Davidson's challenge to representation ‐ picture of language as tied to correspondence theory of truth getting reliable information from the random, or from the patternless ‐ an inability grasping patterned connection ‐ between words and sentences ‘voyages through logical space’ ‐ information coming across sentences that we understand and accept sentences, giving information ‐ irreducibly about parts of worlds and need for centered worlds
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