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large part a function of its internal structure as well.
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Objection 4
Could I not know the use of an expression, and fall in with it, mechanically,
without understanding it? I have known undergraduates who are geniuses
at picking up academic jargon of one sort or another and slinging it around
with great facility, but without understanding. I knew one who took a phe-
nomenology course taught by a visiting Parisian, understood none of it, but
learned the knack of stringing the jargon expressions together so well that
his term paper earned (or "earned") an A. Use perfect (or at least graded A);
meaning nil.
Objection 5
Many rule-governed social activities--sports and games themselves in partic-
ular--do not centrally involve the kind of meaning that linguistic expressions
have. Certainly chess moves and tennis shots do not have meaning of that
sort