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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A proposition draws a line around the facts which agree with it [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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The meaning of a proposition is the mode of its verification [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Words function only in propositions, like levers in a machine [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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A proposition is any expression which can be significantly negated [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
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Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]
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Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]
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