Semantic Analysis and meaning
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…
Paul Ziff's Semantic Analysis and Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia You may wonder what the word “Onomatopoeia” means, and so did I when I first saw it. It's one of those unnecessarily long foreign words which meaning is unguessable…
Quote: Paul Ziff
[Discussing the type/token distinction or ambiguity] "I shall not in general try to eliminate these ambiguities by explicitly stating which sense is intended. Sometimes both senses are intended, sometimes not.…