ABSTRACT
Propositions, then, are the things meant by particular sentences. Yet they can be general meanings also, namely in those cases where the thing meant is a general meaning, where what a particular speaker in a particular context wishes to convey is what any speaker in any context would wish to convey by the same sentence. While propositions can be expressed only in words, they are not the words in which they are expressed. The same proposition can be expressed in an indefinitely large number of different sentences in the same language or different languages. Propositions are asserted or denied, considered, accepted and posed. The chapter considers propositions in the expression of which such words are used as ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘we’, ‘he’, ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘here’, ‘now’, ‘ago’, ‘today’, ‘yesterday’, ‘tomorrow’. The words slisted—‘I’, ‘you’, ‘here’, ‘ago’, ‘yesterday’ –may be said to chain propositions to the context of their assertion.
