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In order to be able to talk meaningfully about anything, it is necessary to agree on the meaning of the words involved. but, on every day use all words are understood by speakers as having indispensable hardcore of meaning. That does not mean that there is no disagreements about the fine details of the meaning of words around the edges The sense of an expression is its indispensable hardcore of meaning. This definition deliberately excludes any influence of context or situation of utterance on the sense of expressions.

There are three important sense properties of sentences,,. the property of being analytic of being synthetic and of being contradictory

is one that necessarily true as a result of the senses of the words in it. An analytic sentence, therefore, reflect a tacit agreement by speakers of the language about the sense of the words in it. An analytic sentence is one which is not analytic but maybe either true or false depending on the way the world is. A synthetic sentence is a sentence that is necessary false as a result of the senses of the words in it thus a contradiction is in a way the oppose of any analytic sentence. Contradiction

examples that man is human of being analytic That man is tall of being synthetic That man is a woman. of being a contradiction for sentences has the sense property of being

This animal is vegetable is a contradiction. This must be false because of the sense of animal and vegetable. Both of John's parents are married to aunts of mine is a contradiction, this must be false because of the senses of both parents, married, and aunt

Analytic sentences can be formed from contradictions and vice versa How ???, by the insertion or removal, as appropriate, of the negative particle word not Notice synthetic sentences are potentially informative in real-world situations whereas analytic sentences and contradictions are Not informative to anyone who already knows the meaning of the words in them.

, each apply to individual sentences. Analyticity, syenthiticty and contradiction are then sense properties of the sentences. The notions analyticsynthetic contradiction Note the interdependence of sense relations and sense properties. Sense properties of sentences (e.g. analyticity) depend on the sense properties of, and sense relations between the words they contain. The sense relation between the predicate man and human is known as hyponymy the sense relation between a man and a woman is a kind of antonymy The sense structure of a language is like a network in which the senses of all elements are directly or indirectly related to the sense of all other elements.

The sense of an expression can be the sum of its sense properties and sense relations, sense properties of sentences include those of being synthetic With the exception of a few predicate such as bachelor, father, square, sphere, etc. it is not possible to give complete definitions of the sense of most predicates by sets of necessary and sufficient conditions stereotype defined in terms of typical characteristics account for the fact that people usually agree on the meaning of the words they use. To sum up analyticcontradiction

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