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'works (fragments)', 'Mere Possibilities' and 'On Hippocrates and Plato'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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A sentence always has signification, but a word by itself never does [Zeno of Citium, by Diog. Laertius]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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We still lack an agreed semantics for quantifiers in natural language [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics
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Possible world semantics may not reduce modality, but it can explain it [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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I take propositions to be truth conditions [Stalnaker]
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A theory of propositions at least needs primitive properties of consistency and of truth [Stalnaker]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 3. Concrete Propositions
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Propositions presumably don't exist if the things they refer to don't exist [Stalnaker]
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