PHIL 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pop Quiz
13 Apr 2014
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What proposition is expressed depends on who says it and to whom. Usually, two tokens of the same type of sentence express the same proposition. Sfu is in canada. : expressing the same proposition. Usually, two tokens of different types of sentences express different propositions. Two tokens of different types of sentences can express the same proposition. The sky is blue. le ciel est bleu. What a sentence means depends on context: what language is being used, who says it, where, when, and even holding language constant. Indexical sentences: use such things as i , here , that , now Prof says i = her, i say i = me, Today is wednesday , that is blue , i am the prof of this class . Cp didn"t have a good way to handle indexes: cp1 avoids the problem by referring to proposition, not sentences (p. 29, a consequence of cp1:
