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    Challenges→We need a Begriffsschrift, distinct from natural languages, to depict the structures of propositions expressed by ordinary sentences.

    Positing a Begriffsschrift as the true bearer of propositional structure presupposes a picture theory of meaning that the ordinary language tradition has given substantial independent reasons to reject.

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    Begriffsschrift(Frege's proposed concept-script for representing logical form)
    A formal language, distinct from natural languages, designed to depict and help discern the logical structures of propositions expressed by ordinary sentences.
    Ordinary language tradition(as a philosophical approach)
    A school of philosophy that studies how people actually use language in everyday life rather than focusing on formal logic or special symbolic systems.
    Picture theory of meaning(in philosophy of language)
    An idea (famously developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein) that words and sentences mean things because they work like pictures—they represent reality by mirroring its structure.
    positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
    The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I

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    propositional structure(Introduced as a convenient label for the kind of structure truth-makers must possess.)
    Structure, syntactic or quasi-syntactic, of the same general kind possessed by declarative sentences, thoughts, and propositions.

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