Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Bertrand Russell and Nicholas of Autrecourt

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates

9022	Russell uses 'propositional function' to refer to both predicates and to attributes [Quine on Russell]

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]

19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 9. Indexical Semantics

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Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell]