Dummett, Michael

"The picture theory of meaning is fundamentally flawed."

"Language creates rather than merely describes reality."

"Nominalism about abstract objects is ultimately untenable."

"Truth depends on social recognition, not objective facts."

"The meaning of negation remains deeply problematic."

"Quantification over abstract entities requires justification."

"Semantic values are not always determinate."

"The investigation of language is the investigation of thought."

"Conventions make truth possible in a real sense."

"The analysis of modality requires careful logical work."

"Numbers exist only as human mental constructs."

"Predicates do not have meanings independent of use."

"The problem of induction remains unsolved in principle."

"Traditional logic fails to capture natural language meaning."

"Identity and distinctness are not simple concepts."

"Truth-value gaps are genuine phenomena of language."

"The concept of 'same meaning' is notoriously unclear."

"Rational discourse requires shared linguistic norms."

"The extension of a term may be indeterminate."

"Logical constants have special linguistic properties."

"Essence is determined by convention, not nature."

"Understanding a name requires knowing how it refers."

"The semantic significance of expressions is contextual."

"Being is fundamentally dependent on human conceptualization."

"Properties are not independent of the concepts used to describe them."

"Nominalist accounts of meaning face serious challenges."

"The unity of a proposition requires explanation."

"Objectivity presupposes shared standards of evaluation."

"Meaning is not a mysterious private possession."

"Language games reveal the groundlessness of logical necessity."