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use-mention distinction
English
Meaning
use-mention distinction
meaning
What does
use-mention distinction
mean?
use-mention distinction
noun
—
(
linguistics
,
philosophy
)
A
distinction
between
the
use
of
a
word
for
its
meaning
(
as
in
"
Cheese
is
derived
from
milk
")
and
the
mention
of
a
word
as
a
lexical
unit
(
as
in
"'
Cheese
is
derived
from
a
word
in
Old
English
").
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