{"id":5286,"date":"2017-08-30T05:14:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/a-question-about-use-and-mention\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T05:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T05:14:28","slug":"a-question-about-use-and-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/30\/a-question-about-use-and-mention\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question about Use and Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a curious sentence suggested to me by London Ed:<\/span><\/p>\n

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1) The last word in this sentence refers to cats.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(1) is part of a larger puzzle the discussion which we leave for later. <\/span><\/p>\n

My question is this: Can a word be both used and mentioned in the same sentence?  It would seem so. (1) is no doubt an unusual sentence. But it is grammatical, makes sense, and is true.  <\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that the last word in (1)  is being both used and mentioned. (Assume someone is uttering a token of (1).) The last word in the sentence is 'cats' and 'cats' refers to cats.  So the last word in (1) is being used. But it is also being mentioned. It is mentioned by 'the last word in this sentence.'<\/span><\/p>\n

So it seems that one and the same word can be both used and mentioned in one and the same sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

What say you, London Ed?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is a curious sentence suggested to me by London Ed: 1) The last word in this sentence refers to cats. (1) is part of a larger puzzle the discussion which we leave for later.  My question is this: Can a word be both used and mentioned in the same sentence?  It would seem so. … Continue reading “A Question about Use and Mention”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-philosophy-of","category-paradoxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}