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    Sense cannot be identified with the proposition that expresses it.

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    • 1.Sense does not exist outside the proposition that expresses it.
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    • 2.Sense has a distinct 'objectity' of its own — it subsists or insists rather than exists.
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    • 3.An entity with its own mode of being (subsistence) is distinct from the entity through which it is expressed.
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    • 1.Frege's sense (Sinn) just is the mode of presentation of a referent, fully captured by the semantic role of the expression itself.
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    • 2.If sense is exhausted by its semantic role within propositions, no residual 'subsistence' remains to ground a distinction from the proposition.
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    • 3.Positing a separate ontological status for sense beyond propositional expression multiplies entities beyond necessity, violating parsimony.
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    • 1.Quine's indeterminacy of translation shows that no determinate sense-entity is fixed by any proposition, undermining sense as a stable object distinct from propositional use.
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    • 2.If sense lacks determinate identity conditions independent of linguistic behavior, the claim that it 'subsists' apart from propositions is empirically vacuous.
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    Deleuze’s contribution to the philosophy of sense really begins to take off when he shows that the attempt to make this fourth dimension evident is akin to Lewis Carroll’s Hunt for the Snark, or to unraveling a Möbius strip, since sense has neither a physical nor a mental existence. Deleuze suggests that it was the Stoics who first discovered the dimension of sense when they distinguished between corporeal mixtures and incorporeal events. I can attribute the proper name “Battle of Waterloo” to a
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