Type Crossings : Sentential Meaninglessness in the Border Area of Linguistics and Philosophy

Milkweed plants drink stones. Electrons drink sunbeams. Quadruplicity drinks procrastination. ## 5 The only ones I can think of are such properties as being something which a sentence might be about, being of interest to someone, being talked and thought about, and so on. ## 6 In addition, there are disjunctive properties, such as the following: being of interest to someone or composed of exactly one stone being of interest to someone or composed of exactly two stones being of interest to someone or composed of exactly three stones and so on to infinity. A PRIORI FALSITY ## THE NEGATIONS OF TYPE CROSSINGS Before discussing the question of the difference in kind between type crossings and ordinary false sentences, I shall first attempt to establish that type crossings can legitimately be characterized as false sentences. This would follow, I believe, from the proposition that the negations of type crossings are true. And this latter point has been quite ably defended by two philosophers, A.

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Preface Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A Priori Falsity 3. Grammar 4. Type-Rules 5. Two Theories Of Type Crossings 6. A New Approach 7. Unthinkability 8. An Extension Of The Topic 9. Recapitulation And Final Remarks Bibliography Author Index Terminological Index