Quote: in "Galileo said that ___" need semantically significant structure for content-sentences but the lack of consequences suggests semantic inertness

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And structure there must be if we are … yield sense when plugged into the slot in … sentences so generated, we cannot do it sentence … as composed of a finite number of devices … So the paradox is this: on the one … of indirect discourse (as I shall call sentences … [e.g., substitutivity] invites us to treat contained sentences as semantically inert. Yet …   Google-1   Google-2

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