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Some Basic Presuppositions 
Some Basic Presuppositions Presuppositions

1. There is an objective reality that exists independently of our representations of it.

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3. Language is a set of devices for conveying meanings from speakers to 
to hearers. 

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1. Just as all my experience is, at bottom, experience of-of of—of a reality given to it and independent of it-so it—so all my understanding and, therefore, all my thought and speech are, at bottom, understanding of, and thought and speech about, that same reality. (If they are not of and about what is actually the case, then they are of and about what could possibly be [or have been] the case. And in any event, they are of and about what could not possibly not be the case, i. e., the strictly necessary structure of reality as such that, being the least common denominator of -all of—all possibilities, is and must be experienced and, at least implicitly, understood, thought, and spoken about insofar as there is any experience and understanding, thought and speech, at all.) 

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