Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Necessary Existents', 'Assertion' and 'Introduction to Aesthetics'

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4 ideas

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 / F. Communication / 2. Assertion

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An assertion aims to add to the content of a context [Stalnaker, by Magidor]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

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An assertion is an attempt to rule out certain possibilities, narrowing things down for good planning [Stalnaker, by Schroeter]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

8114	The institutional theory says only a competent expert can decree something to be an art work [Dickie, by Gardner]