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I think that was fairly clear. Each of those articles is explicitly about a form of reference sentences can have: logical, physical, or logicophysical, and his statement of the GRT was just that all meaningful (or in your reading, true) things can be expressed in these ways.
But it occurs to me that we can file something away, and tomorrow I'm going to read over your last three or four replies and think about the GRTt whether or not it's EY's view. That is, we can agree that the GRTm view is not a tenable thesis as we understand it.
Yeah. I'll re-read his posts, too. In all likelihood I didn't even think about the ambiguity of some of his statements, because I was interpreting everything in light of my pet theory that he subscribes to GRTt. I think he does subscribe to GRTt, but I may have missed some important positivistic views of his if I was only focusing on the project of his he likes. Some of the statements you cited where he discusses 'meaning' do create a tension with GRTt.
My reply to this conversation so far is at: