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Horwich I 193
Situation/state of affairs/Strawson: (instead of "fact" used by Austin) belong rather to the world - but all are only abstractions!
>Abstraction, >Abstraction/Geach.
I 194
Situations cannot be identified with facts!
Fact: e.g. that the description applies to the situation.(1)
>Facts.

1. Peter F. Strawson, "Truth", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Suppl. Vol XXIV, 1950, in: Paul Horwich (ed.) Theories of Truth, Aldershot 1994
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Strawson II 255f
Situation / Strawson: set of facts - if the subject of a statement, then it is not the situation that makes it true but the fact that the situation is as we say.
>Truthmakers.

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