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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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H. Wessel on Sense - Dictionary of Arguments
I 140 Def sense/Wessel: a statement is known, if the meaning of sub-expressions and the properties of the operators are known. - ((s) No Fregean distinction sense/meaning? >Sense, >Meaning, >Fregean meaning, >Fregean sense, >Reference. I 141 Sense/logic/Wessel: the statement that A and B are linked by the mind is empty and does not mean anything - we get along without the word "sense". >Logical constants, >Connectives, >Forms, >Formalization, >Formal language, >Order. I 338 Sense/meaning/Termini/Wessel: difference sense/reference: only with composite Terms. Simple terms: here the distincten is pointless: "What is meaning, what is truth?" Because simple term are predicates, not subjects. "Sense of terms": this is a meaningless question, because it is not to discover a term, only the ability of users. The meaning of a term is only operationalist: the sense is known if the meaning is known. >Operationalism. This does not apply to composite terms: here: we have compositionality, but the meaning of the parts needs not to be known. >Compositionality. Then we do not know the meaning of the composite term. E.g. Round square: there is no method for determining the meaning._____________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. |
Wessel I H. Wessel Logik Berlin 1999 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28