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Philosophy of LanguageIntermediate15 minPlanned

Lewis on Convention

How a meaning can be conventional without anyone having agreed to it

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This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will defineconventioncoordination problemcommon knowledgeconvention of truthfulness and trust
Assumesmeaningspeaker meaning

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