Lexicon of Arguments

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Prior I 21
"About"/Prior: believing-that, thinking-that never goes about propositions, but rather, what propositions are about.
>Propositions, >Facts.
"About" is systematically ambiguous; what it means depends on what kind of a name or quasi-names (eg numbers) follows.
>Systematic ambiguity.
Prior I 57f
"about"/Prior: instead of propositions about propositions (identity of propos E.g.

"Bachelors ... "/" unmarried ... "

better:

"if someone expresses .."Bachelors...".

expresses the same propossition as "..unmarried ..." this is not about propositions.
>Levels/order, >Description levels.
Prior I 155f
"about"/Unicorn example: that a sentence is really about something (existent), cannot depend on the shape, because the shape is the same when the subject is fictional.
>Unicorn-example, >Non-existence, >Fictions, >Logical form.

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