Keelefilosoofia raamat
few words do actually stand for things in the world. For another, if all words
were like proper names, serving just to pick out individual things, we would
not be able to form grammatical sentences in the first place.
Meaning and understanding
Not many people know that, in 1931, Adolf Hitler made a visit to the United
States, in the course of which he did some sightseeing, had a brief affair with a
lady named Maxine in Keokuk, Iowa, tried peyote (which caused him to hal-
lucinate hordes of frogs and toads wearing little boots and singing the Horst
Wessel Lied), infiltrated a munitions plant near Detroit, met secretly with
Vice-President Curtis regarding sealskin futures, and invented the electric
can opener.
There is a good reason why not many people know all that: none of it
is true. But the remarkable thing is that just now, as you read through my
opening sentence--let us call it sentence (1)--you understood it perfectly,
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