Dummett, Michael

"Semantics must account for how speakers actually use language in practice."

"To understand a theorem is to know what would constitute a proof of it."

"Meaning is not found in the mind of the speaker alone but in the community of speakers."

"Classical logic assumes a determinacy that the world does not always provide."

"The verification principle reveals what we truly mean by our statements."

"Identity statements require criteria for their application and verification."

"We must distinguish between sense and reference, between how we grasp meaning and what we refer to."

"Metaphysical realism assumes reality exists wholly independent of our conceptual capacities."

"The law of excluded middle is not a law of logic but an assumption about reality."

"To be rational is to be responsive to reasons and to the shared standards of one's community."

"Intuitionism rejects the infinite as a completed totality; the infinite is always in the process of becoming."

"A meaningful distinction must be one that makes a practical difference to how we speak and act."

"The structure of language mirrors the structure of thought, but not of reality itself."

"Reference is not a magical relation but a function of how we use words in context."

"We acquire linguistic understanding through learning to participate in forms of life."

"The aim of analysis is to clarify what we mean, not to discover hidden essences."

"Frege showed us that meaning cannot be reduced to psychological association."

"The truth of a statement depends on whether the world is as the statement represents it to be."

"Realism about the past assumes that every statement about the past is determinately true or false."

"We interpret the thoughts of others by assuming they are rational and coherent."

"Logical form is not hidden beneath the surface of language; it can be revealed through analysis."

"The verification conditions of a statement exhaust its cognitive meaning."

"Mathematics is a human construction, not a discovery of pre-existing abstract objects."

"To doubt the external world is to doubt the very practice that gives meaning to our words."

"Necessary truths are not truths about an abstract realm but truths that hold in all possible worlds we can conceive."

"The context of utterance determines what is said and what is implicated."

"Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning is superseded by the understanding that meaning derives from use."

"An indeterminate realm is one where truth-value gaps are possible and sometimes actual."

"The objectivity of meaning rests on the intersubjectivity of language users."

"To grasp a concept is to know how to apply it correctly in a variety of contexts."