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'Essays on Intellectual Powers: Conception', 'works' and 'Lectures 1930-32 (student notes)'
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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 / B. Reference / 1. Reference theories
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Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid]
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19. Language / B. Reference / 3. Direct Reference / c. Social reference
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A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid]
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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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