Lexicon of Arguments

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II 257
Convention/StrawsonVsAustin: does not create truth: Relation between the Prime Minister and the expression "the Prime Minister" is conventional, but those who use the expression speak no truth without the context.
>Context dependence, >Statement/Strawson, >Utterance/Strawson, >Speaker intention, >Speaker meaning.
II 260
StrawsonVsAustin: Austin confuses semantic conditions with what was stated.
>Assertibility, >Assertibility conditions.
II 268
E.g. the fact that a statement is exaggerated does not depend on a convention, but on a difference to a fact.
II 269
Existential statements and limited general statements do not make use of conventions.
>Existence statement.
II 257
Truthmaker/Strawson: E.g. a language with "plate" (Wittgenstein, PI) would be just as conventional, but those alleged pseudo-entities that make statements true (facts), would not be among the non-linguistic correlates. - (s) But the world would be more empty because of it

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