When1: 1970
When2: 1984
Who: Donald Davidson [Davidson, Donald]
What: philosopher
Where: USA
works\ Mental Events [1970]; Essays on Actions and Events [1980]; Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [1984]
Detail: He lived 1917 to ? and developed a meaning theory.
Epistemology
For first-order languages, sentence truth is provable from semantic sentence-part relations. All languages can transform into first-order language, for sentence-truth clarity. This allows speakers to have truth-theory. First-order language meaning depends on truth-conditions.
Language interpretation or translation should use universally true and neutral beliefs and references, to minimize errors and falsehoods.
Intention, such as belief, is a mental state in which contrast forms. Speakers speak intentionally.
Causality is only physical, with no mental component, and follows physical law.
People can describe and imagine objects. People can understand and report events. Objects and events are independent.
Mind
Mental processes are physical processes, because they have relation laws, which can only be about physical events. However, mental states are not physical states and physical states cannot describe them {anomalous monism, Davidson}.
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