John F. Sowa schrieb:
> Ingvar,
>
> Quine didn't adopt any notion of 'proposition', 'sentence
> meaning', or 'use of sentence meaning'.  (01) 
No, not "adopt", but he allowed himself to speak of propositions. Here 
are two quotations from "Word and Object" (p. 193):  (02)
"The newly remarked purpose of propositions as surrogate truth vehicles 
demands that propostions resist variation in truth value, ..."  (03)
"In general, to specify a proposition without dependence on 
circumstances of utterance, we put for the 'p' of '[p]' an *eternal 
sentence*: ..."  (04)
best wishes,
Ingvar  (05)
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