14 ;;Quote: type-token--an utterance type is a set of utterance tokens, e.g., two utterances of 'A cow.' and 'A cow.'; ignores differences

16 ;;Quote: let E be the set of all possible, natural utterances; extends the set H of known utterances and H* of actual utterances

16+;;Quote: want to know what a word means in a language; includes all possible, natural utterances

27 ;;Quote: use-mention, using a word versus mentioning the word as a literal string

30 ;;Quote: if a locution sounds odd, it is an excellent clue to a regularity of the language; e.g., 'There is an apple good on my lap.'

34 ;;Quote: a natural language is about regularities, not rules; using a word (or screwdriver) incorrectly is not breaking a rule

35 ;;Quote: one is not taught one's native language, one learns it (before going to school); again, no rules of language

36 ;;Quote: the regularities found in a language are not sources of constraint

36 ;;Quote: a rule is easily confused with a regularity or observable fact

36+;;Quote: rules connect with plans or policies in a way that regularities do not; e.g., 'As a rule, the train is two minutes late.'

38 ;;Quote: to duplicate a behavior, need to know the intentions behind it; e.g., painting (random) numbers 18, 73, 21, 4 on your forehead

39 ;;Quote: to determine the meaning of 'good' need to know what 'mean' means, e.g., need to know what words have meaning in E

41 ;;Quote: if a theory neatly fits the facts, accept what seem to be the facts as in fact the facts about the matter

43 ;;Quote: if a word does not have meaning in an utterance, then stressing the word is not significant; e.g., 'to' in 'I want to go through Istanbul'

48 ;;Quote: a statement of the form '"p" iff p' says that the phrase 'p' can occur in this way; is part of its meaning

50 ;;Quote: for the semantic analysis of a language, just need the course of a child's life, not the entire world

76 ;;Quote: virtually all nondeviant utterances of E satisfy state regularities or projections to a standard case; confirmable in actual world

82 ;;Quote: in uttering an utterance a speaker is performing various speech acts; e.g., referring, asserting, stating, ordering

77 ;;Quote: a speech act must satisfy certain conditions; e.g., a corpse won't normally do for a greeting

92 ;;Quote: that a proper name can be learned simply by following a finger is a myth; e.g., what is pointed at?

95 ;;Quote: what a speaker means and what an element connotes to a hearer admit of enormous latitude

95+;;Quote: the meaning of something is between speakers and hearers; neither what was meant nor what was connoted

96 ;;Quote: the connotation of an element is the set of similarities noted by hearers of the language about its semantic regularities in the language

98 ;;Quote: nouns are either count nouns with singular and plural forms or mass nouns without; e.g., 'bean' and 'beans' vs. 'rice'

101 ;;Quote: use sound instead of sense to avoid oddity in '... and ... are one and the same cat.'; e.g., 'Witchgren' and 'Grenwitch'

101 ;;Quote: connotations vary widely because everyone knows different subsets of an element's distributive set in the corpus E

104 ;;Quote: a name is a fixed point of the language, not an abbreviated description; compare distributive sets for someone dying vs. changing sex

104 ;;Quote: can define a circle by drawing a circle or by drawing tangents, i.e., by pointing or description

104+;;Quote: can define a circle by many sets of tangents; erase them all and the circle vanishes; the same with Gautier and what is said about him

114 ;;Quote: the oldest example of meaning without reference is the Hindu grammarian's 'horns of a hare'

114 ;;Quote: 'this' and 'that' have different meanings but the same set of referents; hence meaning and reference are not the same

116 ;;Quote: in uttering 'Witchgren is on the mat' the speaker is making an assertion whether or not Witchgren is on the mat

117 ;;Quote: 'true' is a difficult word associated with all sorts of puzzles; can't be ignored

125 ;;Quote: sets of conditions are correlated with the elements of E that have meaning in English; such state regularities are simply a fact

125 ;;Quote: state regularities do not occur for nonsense sentences, nor for sentences used in the liar paradox

146 ;;Quote: meaning is essentially a matter of semantic regularities

146 ;;Quote: determine if an element has a meaning by its distributive set and contrastive set in the corpus

151 ;;Quote: words but not utterances generally have meaning in English; because a word, but not an utterance, has a distributive set in E

158 ;;Quote: the use of a word depends on more than its meaning; also phonetic, syntactic, morphology and etymology

183 ;;Quote: to explain a word's meaning need to characterize the relevant set of conditions associated with the utterances in its distributive set

185 ;;Quote: some words have a meaning in English with necessary and sufficient conditions; e.g., 'brother' vs. 'tiger', 'brotherlike freak', 'old brother'

186 ;;Quote: if a word has meaning in English, can always say something about it; may not able to explain it in detail or give a precise definition

187 ;;Quote: to determine a word's meaning need to determine its distributive and contrastive sets; grammatical characterization, attention to details

189 ;;Quote: need to determine the relevant, semantic differences between a word's distributive and contrastive sets; disambiguation

193 ;;Quote: the final step of determining a word's meaning is formulating a dictionary entry that summarizes its relevant semantic differences

204 ;;Quote: English adjectives have relative ranks that order multiple occurrences; e.g., 'a red wooden table'

237 ;;Quote: for most utterances using 'good', can ask 'What is good about that?'

239 ;;Quote: can debate whether or not something is 'good'; agrees with 'good' as answering to certain interests

247 ;;Quote: 'good' means answering to certain interests; 157 utterances in support, 3 utterances that fit poorly