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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 5. Fregean Semantics

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Russell rejected sense/reference, because it made direct acquaintance with things impossible [Russell, by Recanati]

7313	'Sense' is superfluous (rather than incoherent) [Russell, by Miller,A]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 6. Truth-Conditions Semantics

7767	The theory of definite descriptions aims at finding correct truth conditions [Russell, by Lycan]

7770	Truth conditions will come out the same for sentences with 'renate' or 'cordate' [Lycan]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 8. Possible Worlds Semantics

7773	A sentence's truth conditions is the set of possible worlds in which the sentence is true [Lycan]

7774	Possible worlds explain aspects of meaning neatly - entailment, for example, is the subset relation [Lycan]