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This view need not be contrasted with the view that the meanings of words or expressions can (or must) be determined prior to, and independently of, the meanings of the propositions in which they occur, which is often referred to as the
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holding that a philosopher should "never ... ask for the meaning of a word in isolation, but only in the context of a proposition" (Frege x).
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always to separate sharply the psychological from the logical, the subjective from the objective;
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never to ask for the meaning of a word in isolation, but only in the context of a proposition
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Only the proposition has sense; only in the context of a proposition has a name meaning. ...
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An expression has meaning only in a proposition. Every variable can be conceived as a
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In the enquiry that follows, I have kept to three fundamental principles:
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The context principle also figures prominently in the work of other
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never to lose sight of the distinction between concept and object.
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philosophy of language
semantic holism
Gottlob Frege
The Foundations of Arithmetic
psychologism
philosophy of logic
philosophy of mathematics
principle of compositionality
analytic philosophers
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
propositional variable
Principle of compositionality
Semantic holism
The Foundations of Arithmetic
J. L. Austin
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0-8101-0605-1
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
C. K. Ogden
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0-415-05186-X
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