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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Propositions are the pretentious bourgeoisie of meaning, desperate to hide their origins in context, which sounds lower class.
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Replying to @SlopeOfFunction @Meaningness
Which I guess makes statements of actual mathematics the aristocracy that they are pretending to.
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Replying to @SlopeOfFunction
I bet you can find explicit statements of that in Enlightenment rationalist tracts
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