Understanding, Representation, Information

In Language, Names and Information. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 30–60 (2010)
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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?

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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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