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What Role Should Propositions Have in the Theory of Meaning? Review Essay: Scott Soames. What is meaning?

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. ix, 132.

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Ludwig, K. What Role Should Propositions Have in the Theory of Meaning? Review Essay: Scott Soames. What is meaning? . Philosophia 40, 885–901 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9368-3

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