between sexes. The chivalric romance of lobe is influenced by works of Ovid, the favourite Latin poet in the MA. The philosophy of Courtly Love perceives sexual love as ennobling, owes its idealism to Plato and his Neo-Platonist followers. 2 worlds 1) eternal, `ideas'. 2)sense- world of time and change. Soul cosmic and human, is an intermediary between them. The soul is constantly struggling while the intellect is changeless and eternal. C.L as a set of ideas appears in the songs of the troubadours in Provence. C.L is the privilege of the knightly class. The relationship between the lover and his lady is similar to feudal service, he seeks her love not for personal enrichment or dynastic considerations, but because he desires her as a person and hopes to be judged by his achievements. It can never lead to marriage, because either they are married, or socially don't suit, the secrecy is vital
certain special relation. S is a sentence of a particular language. Poor g does not bear that relation to any such item. The relation is often called expression; philosophers commonly talk of sentences expressing propositions. (Though here the term is more bloodless than in ideational theories. Ideational theorists think of sentences almost as being pushed out from inside us by the pressure of our thoughts, but propositions are abstract, changeless and powerless and do not push or pull.) So S is meaningful in virtue of expressing the particular proposition P; g's failing is that it expresses no proposition at all. The other meaning facts are neatly depicted from the present point of view. For sentences S1 and S2 to be synonymous is just for S1 and S2 to express the same proposition. They are distinct linguistic expressions--they could be different expressions in one and the same natural language or they could be