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| 13941 | Are the truth-bearers sentences, utterances, ideas, beliefs, judgements, propositions or statements? |
| 13942 | Logicians take sentences to be truth-bearers for rigour, rather than for philosophical reasons |
| 13945 | A token isn't a unique occurrence, as the case of a word or a number shows |
| 13948 | For any statement, there is no one meaning which any sentence asserting it must have |
| 13950 | People don't assert the meaning of the words they utter |
| 13944 | We can pull apart assertion from utterance, and the action, the event and the subject-matter for each |
| 13947 | 'It's raining' makes a different assertion on different occasions, but its meaning remains the same |
| 13943 | We can attribute 'true' and 'false' to whatever it was that was said |
| 13946 | To assert that p, it is neither necessary nor sufficient to utter some particular words |
| 13951 | Assertions, unlike sentence meanings, can be accurate, probable, exaggerated, false.... |