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Sense, philosophy: sense is a property of statements which makes the determination of the truth value (true or false) possible, although not guaranteed. Even false statements make sense; otherwise their falsehood could not be established. What is meaningless, therefore, is what cannot be negated. Statements about the future allow an assessment of probabilities if they are sensible without having a truth value. Wishes and commands are sensible and understandable if they can be reformulated into negative statements. See also understanding, negation, truth values, verification, determination, indeterminacy, probability, Fregean sense._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Benson Mates on Sense - Dictionary of Arguments
I 99 Sense/meaning/Frege / Mates: Sense and meaning should not be confused because the compositionality applies to both ((s) seperately) : e.g. (1) morning star and evening star are the same (2) morning star and morning star are the same. (1) and (2) do not have the same meaning - E.g. a = a is not the same sense as a = b. >Identity, >Identity/Frege. N.B.: nevertheless m.s. and e.s. have the same meaning (reference). >Reference, >Meaning, >Fregean sense, >Fregean meaning. Meaning/Frege: meaning of a statement: the truth value (object). >Truth values. Sense of a statement/Frege: thought, content, proposition. ((s) decisive place in the literature). >Thought, >Content, >Proposition. Truth value/MatesVsFrege: Truth values do not exist. - Vet Mates per Frege, without Frege's metaphysics. The sense (manner of presentation) uniquely determines the meaning (reference). >Way of givenness, cf. >Intension, >Extension._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Mate I B. Mates Elementare Logik Göttingen 1969 Mate II B. Mates Skeptical Essays Chicago 1981 |