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    Challenges→Truth values are distinct from the senses (Sinnen) or Thoughts (Gedanken) of propositions.

    If truth-talk is performative rather than descriptive, then positing truth values as metaphysically distinct from propositional senses introduces unnecessary Platonist ontology with no explanatory payoff.

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    Metaphysically distinct(as used in metaphysics)
    Fundamentally different in nature or existence—meaning they are not the same thing at the deepest level of reality, even if they might seem related.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Platonist ontology(as used in metaphysics)
    The philosophical view that abstract ideas or concepts exist as real objects in a non-physical realm, similar to Plato's Theory of Forms.
    descriptive(describing the other type of vocabulary being compared)
    Language or claims about how things *actually are* in reality—just the facts without judgments about whether they're good or bad.
    explanatory payoff

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    (as used in philosophy of science and epistemology)
    The useful benefit or practical advantage that a theory or idea provides in helping us understand something better.
    performative(as used in philosophy of language)
    Describing language or statements that *do* something (like making a promise or giving a command) rather than simply reporting facts.
    propositional senses(as used in philosophy of language)
    The meanings or ideas that statements express, separate from whether those statements are true or false.
    truth values(Frege-Church semantic framework)
    The entities that sentences stand for, according to Church's argument; the two truth values being the True and the False.
    truth-talk(as used in philosophy of language)
    The act of using language to speak about what is true or false, rather than just describing facts directly.

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