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'Logical Properties', 'The Principles of Mathematics' and 'On the Ultimate Origination of Things'
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics
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Semantics should not be based on set-membership, but on instantiation of properties in objects [McGinn]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 7. Extensional Semantics
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Clearly predicates have extensions (applicable objects), but are the extensions part of their meaning? [McGinn]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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Proposition contain entities indicated by words, rather than the words themselves [Russell]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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If propositions are facts, then false and true propositions are indistinguishable [Davidson on Russell]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 5. Unity of Propositions
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A proposition is a unity, and analysis destroys it [Russell]
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Russell said the proposition must explain its own unity - or else objective truth is impossible [Russell, by Davidson]
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