Stephen Law and Nigel Warburton's "Five Questions About Clarity"
This essay on clarity is great and short. Read it.
This essay on clarity is great and short. Read it.
Again I'm quoting Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis: 41. [...] Consequently, if my contention about meaning is correct, then the first 'do' in 'Please do not do it!', unlike the second…
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Abstract I invent and explore a terminology about degrees of sentences, I explore how to negate sentences and sentence parts in english, I distinguish between verbs that can be used…
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