Fact – (according to Frege) A fact is a thought that is true.

Facts are the senses of declarative

sentences. A fact is not represented by a sense; it just is such a sense, one which is true. Unlike
sense and reference (appearance and reality), thoughts and facts have no gulf of intelligibility.

The meaning of a sentence – what has to obtain so that the sentence is true (Davidson)

Quine – How do we know that “gabadush” means rabbit?

Radical untranslatability.

B. F. Skinner, Behaviorism: human beings are blank slates. Rejects “mental states” and the
psychologizing of human experience.

Chomsky – Universal Grammar (UG)

Syntax and Semantics

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is grammatical.

Escher Sentences: “More people have been to Boston than I have.”

Phenomenon called the Poverty of Stimulus. Children are not exposed to rich enough data within
their linguistic environments to acquire every feature of their language.

Davidson – On The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme

In order to speak at all, we have to presuppose a series of rules that we share.

Reasoning, rules of language, epistemic norms.
Deliberation or discursivity vs. noise.