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4737 | Are truth-bearers propositions, or ideas/beliefs, or sentences/utterances? [Engel] |
Full Idea: The tradition of the Stoics and Frege says that truth-bearers are propositions, Descartes and the classical empiricist say they are ideas or beliefs, and Ockham and Quine say they are sentences or utterances. | |
From: Pascal Engel (Truth [2002], §1.1) | |
A reaction: I'm with propositions, which are unambiguous, can be expressed in a variety of ways, embody the 'logical form' of sentences, and could be physically embodied in brains (the language of thought?). |