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Single Idea 13944
[filed under theme 19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Full Idea
We need to distinguish 1) what is asserted, 2) that assertion, 3) asserting something, 4) what is predicated, 5) what is uttered, 6) that utterance, 7) uttering something, 8) the utterance token, and 9) the meaning.
Gist of Idea
We can pull apart assertion from utterance, and the action, the event and the subject-matter for each
Source
Richard Cartwright (Propositions [1962], 05-06)
Book Ref
Cartwright,Richard: 'Philosophical Essays' [MIT 1987], p.36
A Reaction
[summary of his overall analysis in the paper] It is amazingly hard to offer a critical assessment of this sort of analysis, but it gives you a foot in the door for thinking about the issues with increasing clarity.
The
19 ideas
from Richard Cartwright
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9783
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While no two classes coincide in membership, there are distinct but coextensive attributes
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9784
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A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system
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9786
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Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard
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13952
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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent
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13953
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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind
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13954
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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential
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13955
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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic
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13941
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Are the truth-bearers sentences, utterances, ideas, beliefs, judgements, propositions or statements?
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13942
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Logicians take sentences to be truth-bearers for rigour, rather than for philosophical reasons
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13943
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We can attribute 'true' and 'false' to whatever it was that was said
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13944
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We can pull apart assertion from utterance, and the action, the event and the subject-matter for each
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13946
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To assert that p, it is neither necessary nor sufficient to utter some particular words
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13947
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'It's raining' makes a different assertion on different occasions, but its meaning remains the same
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13948
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For any statement, there is no one meaning which any sentence asserting it must have
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13951
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Assertions, unlike sentence meanings, can be accurate, probable, exaggerated, false....
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13950
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People don't assert the meaning of the words they utter
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13945
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A token isn't a unique occurrence, as the case of a word or a number shows
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14961
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Clearly a pipe can survive being taken apart
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14962
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Bodies don't becomes scattered by losing small or minor parts
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