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'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' and 'Language,Truth and Logic'
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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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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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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 / 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 / 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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