[Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 32, Issue 13

[Dai Griffiths]

Many (most?) linguistic interactions are not propositional in the sense 
that you imply.

There is no verifiable equivalent to opening the fridge door for 
utterances like "Cool", "Give us a hand won't you", "You're welcome", 
"Justin Bieber is wonderful", "You go and sneak in round the back while 
I distract them at the front door", and so on.

So I doubt your 'usually', and the application to natural language.

Dai


On 15/11/16 15:05, Bruno Marchal wrote:
> A model is a mathematical structure making a sentence (proposition) 
> true or false, and this, in my opinion applies to meaning in the 
> natural language, where usually some notion of reality is involved: 
>  the proposition "there is two beers in the fridge" is judged 
> meaningful because we believe in a reality with fridge containing, or 
> not, beers.

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