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It is easy to
agree that certain sentences of various different languages all have something
(their meanings) in common, a language-independent content, and it is easy
and natural to call that content "the proposition expressed by" the various
different sentences. Moreover, the Proposition Theory is a handy tool for
describing and discussing the other sorts of "meaning phenomena" we have
mentioned, to say nothing of entailment, meaning inclusion, antonymy,
redundancy, and more. Finally, as we shall see in chapters 10 and 11, the
Proposition Theory lends itself to elegant mathematical elaboration, in the
hands of "possible worlds" semanticists and intensional logicians. But, as
always, there are problems.
Objection 1
We have said that "propositions" are abstract entities, even though sentences
are now being said to "express" them rather than to name them as in the
Referential Theory. Considered as entities, these abstract items are somewhat
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