Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Conjunction/Aristotle: Problem: white and man can be composed to white man. - That's fine.
But: not "good" and "cobbler".
Compound noun: cannot occur as the subject of a predication: E.g. lawyer-politician: then neither: "Every S is a scoundrel" nor "Some S are honest" as conjunction of predications, by first inserting "lawyer" and then "politician".
>Predication, >Attribution, >Predicates, >Properties, >Statements.
But this does not show that a conjunction is not a sentence.
>Sentences/Geach.
False: "God and Plato are two wise men".
Solution/Geach: You do not have to decide whether none or "not all ..." occur in a class. Conjunction: is not a pair of sentences! E.g. "Smith hears that Browns wife is unfaithful."
Negation of the conjunction: ~(p u q) = (plq), not both.
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Conjunction/Sentence/Frege: "p u q" is a sentence that is different from "p" and "q" alone.
Mill: ditto: otherwise "a group of horses" as "a kind of horse".
But not: E.g. "Jim is convinced and his wife is unfaithful."
Solution: "the fact that..." is always to be split as a pair of statements.
>Facts/Geach.