Lexicon of Arguments

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I 280
Semantic relegation/Wright: Instead of talking about words, talking about facts, objects, substantial truth. Boghossian promised to avoid this descent.
Cf. >Semantic ascent.
Thought/sentence/object language/meta language/Wright: the question whether the sentence "My lawn is green" is true, depends on its meaning, but not on the status of the thought that my lawn is green.
Cf. >Belief state.
 In the semantic descent of sentence to thought - we left the meaning behind us.
>Sentences, >Propositions, >Meaning.
WrightVs: this does not do more than sticking your head in the sand.
How could the assertion that P escapes the fate of its metalinguistic counterpart if the fate of the latter is sealed only by the cooperation of the content?
>Content.
Language is not a mere clothing of thought. We have no wordless contact with the thought that P. Thoughts must be mediated symbolically.
>Thinking, >Content, >Language, >Language and thinking, cf. >Thinking without language.

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