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    Sense has neither a physical nor a mental existence, making it a distinct ontological dimension that cannot be straightforwardly demonstrated.

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    • 1.Attempts to make sense evident as a fourth dimension are analogous to Lewis Carroll's Hunt for the Snark or unraveling a Möbius strip.
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    • 2.Sense is not reducible to physical states of affairs nor to mental propositions.
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    • 1.Fregean Sinne are abstract objects with determinate identity conditions, making sense fully articulable within a third-realm ontology without paradox.
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    • 2.Frege's distinction between Sinn and Bedeutung demonstrates that sense can be rigorously individuated without positing an ineffable fourth dimension.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's use-theory holds that meaning is exhausted by rule-governed linguistic practice, leaving no explanatory gap that a sui generis sense-dimension must fill.
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    • 2.If sense is neither demonstrable nor reducible to physical or mental facts, Ockham's razor demands we treat it as a pseudo-entity generated by misleading grammatical surface forms.
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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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