Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments
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Sentences: sentences are linguistic forms for expressing existent or non-existent issues of conditions, wishes, questions or commands. Statements can be true or false, unlike other forms of sentences like questions or single words. See also subsentential, truth, statements. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
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Geach, Peter T.   Books on Amazon	Sentences	I 204 Sentence/Name/Abbreviation/Substitute/Proxy/Geach: e.g. if "P" and "Q" are abbreviations of sentences and "A" and "B", the respective names of these sentences, then we could have a convention, by which "A > B" is the name (abbreviation) of the sentence "P > Q". Autonymous/Carnap: the symbol ">" in "A > B", is used as a sign of itself, autonymous - (Geach per) I 258 Conjunction/Sentence/Frege: "P u Q" is a phrase that is different from "p" and "q" individually - Mill: ditto: otherwise "a group of horses" would be the same 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 into a pair of statements. I 291 Sentence / GeachVsAristoteles: it is a mistake to analyze complex sentences as a combination of atomic sentences. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Gea I P.T. Geach Logic Matters Oxford 1972

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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-07-28