Dear George,
Yes, I am very much aware of what you are describing and completely
agree. I am right now looking for the original text. The text itself
in Bekker's edition constitutes a Symbolic Object with propositional
meaning, an Expression in the sense of FRBR.
The search for precision is
Dear Achille,
Yeah, clearly the Bekker numbers themselves are not propositional objects
but identifiers. But I don't think that they are identifiers for
propositional objects. They are identifiers for chunks of text in an
edition, an information object which has a series of symbols and may encode
Dear George,
What I read in Martin's email is that Bekker numbers are examples of
identifiers for propositional content, not propositional objects themselves.
Which, it seems to me, is not so far from your thoughts :-)
Ciao,
A.
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