Lexicon of Arguments

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II 144
Meaning/Loar: a sentence in a community is a function of psychological and social role. - Other sentences in other languages do not belong to the point. - (Davidson ditto).
Whatever is important, it is not something that is generally available in translation relative to the sentence.
>Translation, >Language community, >Language use,
II 144
Meaningfulness/significance/Loar: regardless of language: e.g. unstructured signals have conventional meaning in a community.
>Conventions.
Problem: the equivalence of "Snow is white" and "Grass is green".
>Tarski scheme, >Quote/Disoquotation, >Truth definition, >Equivalence, >Convention T.
Accidental equivalences cannot be ruled out.
II 149
Meaning/sentence meaning/Loar: what a sentence means is always relative to a language - ((s) it is not a language-independent proposition).
>Propositions, >Sentences.

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