John, list: On 6/27/2017 6:08 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote:
> Thanks for making what might otherwise appear confusing and complex, clear > and simple. Not I, but Gary said the above I saw what you were doing... explaining by means of itself. best, J On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 10:19 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/27/2017 6:08 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote: > >> Thanks for making what might otherwise appear confusing and complex, >> clear and simple. >> > > I hope I didn't make it too clear and simple -- because I agree with > Peirce (and with modern lexicographers) that word senses are definitely > not clear and simple. I was simply pointing out some issues that Peirce > had discussed in various ways. In particular, most of the ways of using > a proposition happen can be described by nominalized verbs. > > In _How to do things with words_, Austin said more about such issues: > http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2271128:3/comp > onent/escidoc:2271430/austin_1962_how-to-do-things-with-words.pdf > > For good observations by modern lexicographers (Sue Atkins and > Adam Kilgarriff), see the article "I don't believe in word senses": > https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/I_dont_believe_1997.pdf > > John > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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