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Ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Vagueness: a global approach' and 'Three theses about dispositions'

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5. Theory of Logic / I. Semantics of Logic / 1. Semantics of Logic

23539	Classical semantics has referents for names, extensions for predicates, and T or F for sentences [Fine,K]
	Full Idea: A precise language is often assigned a classical semantics, in which the semantic value of a name is its referent, the semantic value of a predicate is its extension (the objects of which it is true), and the value of a sentence is True or False.
	From: Kit Fine (Vagueness: a global approach [2020], 1)
	A reaction: Helpful to have this clear statement of how predicates are treated. This extensionalism in logic causes trouble when it creeps into philosophy, and people say that 'red' just means all the red things. No it doesn't.