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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Lectures 1930-32 (student notes)' and 'Truth (2nd edn)'
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions
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A proposition draws a line around the facts which agree with it [Wittgenstein]
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We could know the truth-conditions of a foreign sentence without knowing its meaning [Horwich]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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The meaning of a proposition is the mode of its verification [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning
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Words function only in propositions, like levers in a machine [Wittgenstein]
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 1. Propositions
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A proposition is any expression which can be significantly negated [Wittgenstein]
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There are Fregean de dicto propositions, and Russellian de re propositions, or a mixture [Horwich]
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19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / b. Indeterminate translation
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Right translation is a mapping of languages which preserves basic patterns of usage [Horwich]
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