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Ideas for 'Truly Understood', 'Rationality and Virtue' and 'On the Plurality of Worlds'

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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role

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A particular functional role is what gives content to a thought [Lewis]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 4. Compositionality

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Encountering novel sentences shows conclusively that meaning must be compositional [Peacocke]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 2. Abstract Propositions / b. Propositions as possible worlds

9654	A proposition is a set of entire possible worlds which instantiate a particular property [Lewis]

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A proposition is the property of being a possible world where it holds true [Lewis]

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Propositions can't have syntactic structure if they are just sets of worlds [Lewis]