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    Challenges→The conception of sentences as meaning representations is consistent with Montague's contention that language is logic.

    If the Wittgensteinian critique holds, treating sentences as static logical objects misrepresents natural language semantics, making consistency with Montague's contention a shared error rather than a vindication.

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    Key Terms

    Ludwig Wittgenstein(the philosopher whose critique is referenced)
    An influential 20th-century philosopher who revolutionized thinking about language by claiming that words get their meaning from everyday use, not from representing fixed ideas.
    Montague(the philosopher whose theory is being critiqued)
    Richard Montague, a logician who created a formal system for analyzing language mathematically, treating sentences as logical objects with precise meanings.
    Montague's contention(what is being compared to the Wittgensteinian critique)
    Montague's main argument that sentences in natural language can be studied using formal logic and mathematical methods.
    Wittgensteinian critique(as the main argument being discussed)
    A philosophical challenge to how we think about language, based on ideas from Ludwig Wittgenstein, who argued that the meaning of words comes from how people actually use them in real situations, not from abstract rules.

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    consistency with(whether one theory aligns with another)
    Agreeing with or being compatible with another idea or theory.
    natural language semantics(what gets misrepresented by treating language as static)
    The study of how meaning actually works in the languages people speak every day, including all the messy, context-dependent ways words get their meaning.
    static logical objects(what the critique says we shouldn't do)
    Treating sentences as if they have fixed, unchanging meanings that follow strict rules of logic, like mathematical equations.
    vindication(Feigl's account of how humanist values are justified)
    A pragmatic mode of justification for moral values, as opposed to a priori or absolutist justification.

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