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'Language,Truth and Logic', 'Problems of Philosophy' and 'Darwinian Metaphysics: Species and Essentialism'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Russell started philosophy of language, by declaring some plausible sentences to be meaningless [Russell, by Hart,WD]
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Every understood proposition is composed of constituents with which we are acquainted [Russell]
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A sentence is factually significant to someone if they know how to verify its proposition [Ayer]
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Factual propositions imply (in conjunction with a few other premises) possible experiences [Ayer]
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Tautologies and empirical hypotheses form the entire class of significant propositions [Ayer]
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