Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Non-existence/Empty Names/Unicorn/Solution/Moore/Millikan: Moore introduced "concepts" so that names such as "Pegasus" have something they can correspond to.
Solution/Frege: "meaning" to which referentially equivalent terms with different meaning can correspond to.
>Unicorn-example, >Pegasus-example, >Fiction.
Solution/Carnap/Millikan: E.g. "Pegasus": here we are talking about our linguistic usage or of the words, not the object. ((s) semantic rise).
Identity/Existence/Sentence/Representation/Millikan: Thesis: neither sentences that contain the "is" of existence, nor the "is" of identity are representations!
>Sentence/Millikan, >Representation/Millikan, >Identity/Millikan.
Identity statement/Millikan: no representation.
Existence assertion/existence statement/Existence/Millikan: are no representation.
Intentional icon: however, identity statements and existence statements are intentional icons. However, they are more primitive icons than representations.
Identity Theorem/Existence/Millikan: although they must map in accordance with mapping rules to perform their eigenfunction,...
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...the variants of the facts in the world which they map do not have to be identified.
>Terminology/Millikan.
These sentences are icons of the relations of words to the world.
That is, we do not translate them into inner icons of facts.
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Moved use/changed use/move/disengaged/non-existence/Millikan: E.g: "x does not exist":
1. This is not a representation. (Also not e.g. "x exists").
2. It is not a referential use.
>referential/attributive.