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It appears that in mixed quotations like the following, the quoted expression is used and mentioned at the same time: George says Tony is his ‘bestest friend’. Most theories seek to account for this observation by assuming that mixed quotations operate at two levels of content at once. In contradistinction to such two-dimensional theories, we propose that quotation involves just a single level ...

Direct quotations from business leaders can provide a rich sample of language which is in common use in the world of commerce. This language used by business leaders often uses: metaphors, euphemisms, slang, obscenities and invented words. In addition the business lexicon is dynamic because new words or terms will gain popularity with businessmen whilst obsolete words will exit their common voc...

Title of the document: Consciousness and Mental Quotation: An intrinsic higherorder account Vincent J. Picciuto, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Peter Carruthers, Philosophy The guiding thought of this dissertation is that phenomenally conscious mental states consist in an appropriate pair of first-order and higher-order representations that are uniquely bound together by ment...

cttqe is a version of Church’s type theory that includes quotation and evaluation operators that are similar to quote and eval in the Lisp programming language. With quotation and evaluation it is possible to reason in cttqe about the interplay of the syntax and semantics of expressions and, as a result, to formalize syntax-based mathematical algorithms. We present the syntax and semantics of c...