Propositions are spooks, like kobolds or banshees. No one has ever captured one on camera, or in a zoo. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Sentences are ambiguous & context-dependent. Propositions are imagined as fixed-up sentences that behave themselves. But no one can say how.
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Replying to @Meaningness
Words are ambiguous! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation …
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Replying to @garybasin
Yeah, the “bad behavior” of language is both in syntax and world-meanings.
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