Quote: the truth of a sentence is relative to a person and a time; also vicinity and improper descriptions

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I turn now to one more, and very … in one mouth be true and at another … No logical errors result if we simply treat … [p. 88] it is simplest just to view truth … as now read applies as usual, but only … [cf. Austin 1950] [Higg.: also need vicinities e.g., "A: What's cooking in Chicago? B: It's raining." Another problem is improper descriptions such as "Look at the dog". Could solve by assuming they were elliptical but then how about "The dog bit another dog", or "Look out for the truck!" in which the speaker had nothing else in mind]   Google-1   Google-2

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