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Ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund' and 'Propositions'

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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions

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We can pull apart assertion from utterance, and the action, the event and the subject-matter for each [Cartwright,R]

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'It's raining' makes a different assertion on different occasions, but its meaning remains the same [Cartwright,R]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions

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Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson]

19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions

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We can attribute 'true' and 'false' to whatever it was that was said [Cartwright,R]

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To assert that p, it is neither necessary nor sufficient to utter some particular words [Cartwright,R]