Keelefilosoofia raamat
stand speech. But consider linguistic expressions themselves, as objects of
study in their own right.
(2) w gfjsdkhj jiobfglglf ud
(3) It's dangerous to splash gasoline around your living room.
(4) Good of off primly the a the the why.
(1)(4) are all strings of marks (or of noises, if uttered aloud). But they
differ dramatically from each other: (1) and (3) are meaningful sentences,
while (2) and (4) are gibberish. (4) differs from (2) in containing individually
meaningful English words, but the words are not linked together in such a
way as to make a sentence, and collectively they do not mean anything at
all.
Certain sequences of noises or marks, then, have a feature that is both
scarce in nature and urgently in need of explanation: that of meaning some-
thing. And each of those strings has the more specific property of meaning
something in particular
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