Philosophy has become packed with potential terminological minefields, each of which could explode so massively that philosophers step very gingerely around the humblest sentences.
The result is footnotes like this one from Oppy’s Ontological Arguments: “This talk of ‘sets of sentences’ is shorthand for more convoluted talk about sets of standardly interpreted sentences … The difficulty here is to make a more accurate claim that does not suggest a perhaps undesirable commitment to the existence of abstract entities associated with utterances or inscriptions of sentence-tokens”.
Bloody Wittgenstein. He should have remained silent.
