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Single Idea 6024

[filed under theme 19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions ]

Full Idea

No one says or thinks anything ambiguous, and nothing should be held to be being said beyond what the speaker thinks he is saying.

Gist of Idea

Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying

Source

report of Diodorus Cronus (fragments/reports [c.300 BCE]) by Aulus Gellius - Noctes Atticae 11.12.2

Book Ref

'The Hellenistic Philosophers:Vol.1 translations', ed/tr. Long,A. /Sedley,D. [CUP 1987], p.227


A Reaction

A key argument in favour of propositions, implied in this remark, is that propositions are never ambiguous, though the sentences expressing them may be


The 4 ideas from 'fragments/reports'

From the necessity of the past we can infer the impossibility of what never happens [Diod.Cronus, by White,MJ]
The Master Argument seems to prove that only what will happen is possible [Diod.Cronus, by Epictetus]
Conditionals are true when the antecedent is true, and the consequent has to be true [Diod.Cronus]
Thought is unambiguous, and you should stick to what the speaker thinks they are saying [Diod.Cronus, by Gellius]