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Mayo 20, 2009

Uso y Mención

Archivado en: Filosofía del Lenguaje, X Dixit — Eduardo Villanueva Chigne @ 11:29 am
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“To mention Boston we use ‘Boston’ or a synonym, and to mention ‘Boston’ we use ‘ ‘Boston’ ’ or a synonym. ‘ ‘Boston’ ’ contains six letters and just one pair of quotation marks; ‘Boston’ contains six letters and no quotation marks; and Boston contains some 800,000 people.”

W. V. Quine, (1981), Mathematical Logic

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