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meanings by decomposing sentences syntactically into smaller meaningful elements, and computing the complex meanings as syntactic functions of the sentences' smallest meaningful parts. So an adequate theory of meaning in the general philosophical sense should guide us in constructing a systematic "theory of meaning for" any given language that would specify the meaning of each grammatical sentence of that language by chronicling the sentence's composition out of its con- stituent words. Thus, it should have the means to generate a list: "Snow is white" means that snow is white. "Grass is green" means that grass is green. "Poltergeists make up the principal type of material manifestation" means that poltergeists make up the principal type of material manifestation. "In 1931, Adolf Hitler made a visit to the United States, in the course of which . . . " [You get the idea.] And this list is infinite or potentially so