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    Truth values are distinct from the senses (Sinnen) or Tho... — Carmelics
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    Truth values are distinct from the senses (Sinnen) or Thoughts (Gedanken) of propositions.

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    • 1.Frege distinguished truth values from what he called Thoughts (Gedanken) or senses (Sinnen) of propositions.
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    • 2.Each sentential sense 'presents' a truth value in a certain way — as the value of a certain indicated function given a certain indicated argument.
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    • 1.Strawson argued that truth is not a property of propositions or sentences but a performative assertion of endorsement, dissolving the need for truth values as distinct entities.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Frege's own context principle suggests that terms have meaning only in sentential contexts, which undermines treating 'The True' as a freestanding object separable from the thoughts that present it.
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    • 1.For Frege, 'The True' and 'The False' are objects denoted by sentences, making truth values referents (Bedeutungen), not separate metaphysical entities distinct from sense.
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    • 2.If truth values are simply the referents of sentences in Frege's semantic scheme, then distinguishing them 'from' senses merely restates the sense/reference distinction rather than establishing truth values as independently ontologically significant.
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    For purposes of capturing valid arguments concerning relations, the more important point is that functions need not be unary. For example, arithmetic division can be represented as a function from ordered pairs of numbers onto quotients: \(Q(x, y) = \frac{x}{y}\). Mappings can also be conditional. Consider the function that maps every even integer onto itself, and every odd integer onto its successor: \(C(x) = x\) if \(x\) is even, and \(x + 1\) otherwise; \(C(1) = 2\), \(C(2) = 2\), \(C(3) = 4\
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