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of "C"; and not "the meaning of 'C'" but the meaning of "the meaning of 'C'." And so on, ad infinitum. Thus, in writing or in speech, we always fail to state the meaning of a

any people were persuaded that, when they said "'2' is a number" they were speaking the truth, and hold that "Paris" is a town containing the letter "P." When Frege pointed out[27] this difficulty he was almost universally denounced in Germany as "spitzfindig." In fact, Germans seem to have been influenced perhaps by that great contemner of "Spitzfindigkeit," Kant,

ccustomed is "scholastic."[29] By this, I suppose, they mean that the pursuits of certain acute people of the Middle Ages are unimportant in contrast with the great achieveme

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