Keelefilosoofia raamat
explanation only if we had an alternative theory of meaning that explained
the meaning phenomena just as well but without dragging in propositions.
And (so far) we have no such competitor.
Objection 2
"Propositions" are in a sense unfamiliar and alien to our experience. I hear
or see words and I understand them, but this is hardly, or seems hardly, a
case of my doing something called "grasping" that puts me in touch with a
supra-empirical nonspatial, indestructible, eternal object. (Bring up spooky
mood music.)
Moore's reply
It is quite plain, I think, that when we understand the meaning of a sen-
tence, something else does happen in our minds besides the mere hearing
of the words of which the sentence is composed. You can easily satisfy
yourselves of this by contrasting what happens when you hear a sentence,
which you do understand, from what happens when you hear a sentence
which you do not understand . . .
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