12. adverb + adjective and sound, social networking site 47. Idioms A group of words having a meaning not deducible from the individual words. A set expression where two or more words are syntactically related but with a meaning like that of a single lexical unit. Non-compositional meanings – can’t be predicted from the meanings of its semantical components They are unique to languages – jump the gun Can’t be passivized – the gun was jumped, the bucket was kicked o BUT: his leg was pulled continuously by the other boys Can’t be turned into nouns – gun-jumping Three categories of idioms can be distinguished o Pure – pull sb’s leg, kick the bucket, o Semiliteral – fat chance, take steps, be a stepping stone, jump the gun
It hardly follows that the answer I do produce is the precise description that my use of "Sellars" antecedently expressed. Notice: The complaint is not merely that it would be hard to find out which description a speaker "had in mind" in uttering some name. The stronger thesis is that at least in many cases there is no single determinate descrip- tion that the speaker "has in mind," either consciously or subconsciously. I see little reason (independent of the semantical puzzles) for thinking that there is a fact of the matter as to whether "Wilfrid Sellars" is used as equivalent to "The author of `Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man'," or "Pittsburgh's most famous philosopher," or "The inventor of the `Theory' theory of mental terms," or "The man on whose paper I had to comment at the Tenth Chapel Hill Colloquium in 1976," not forgetting "The visiting philosopher with whom I had a fairly violent argument in George Pappas' living room in 1979
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