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'On Propositions: What they are,and Meaning', 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits' and 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 2. Meaning as Mental
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The 'form' of the picture is its possible combinations [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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To understand a proposition means to know what is the case if it is true [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Good philosophy asserts science, and demonstrates the meaninglessness of metaphysics [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality
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Propositions use old expressions for a new sense [Wittgenstein]
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Propositions are understood via their constituents [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Our important beliefs all, if put into words, take the form of propositions [Russell]
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A proposition expressed in words is a 'word-proposition', and one of images an 'image-proposition' [Russell]
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A proposition is what we believe when we believe truly or falsely [Russell]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / b. Propositions as possible worlds
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Pictures are possible situations in logical space [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial
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If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 4. Private Language
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Solipsism is correct, but can only be shown, not said, by the limits of my personal language [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation
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We translate by means of proposition constituents, not by whole propositions [Wittgenstein]
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