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Tjedan
Tjedan
Tjedan
“play ball” – comes from baseball, means: going along with things you are part of the game
The Candidate
Mephistopheles – you can get what you want, but it will cost you your soul
Game change
Sentence semantics
- Contingent sentences
- A entails not B.
- B entails not A.
- A: It is cold.
- B: It is hot.
- A entails not B.
- B entails not A.
- They may not be both true (both cold and hot) from this it does not follow that they are
both false (they may both be false – it can be warm)
- Logical contradiction
- A entails not B. / not B A
- B entails not A. / not A B
- A: The wasp is dead.
- B: The wasp is not alive.
- Either/or situation – strictly binary oppositions
- When talking about relation between words (not sentences) just different terms, same
meaning
- Logic&meaning
- Descriptive meaning: the window is open.
- Expressive/emotive meaning: the fucking window is open.
- Social meaning: ti/Vi; sie/Sie; thou/you depends who you talk to
CONTRADICTORY
MUTUAL EQUIVALENT
f) A Only fifty per cent of the people here have a job.
B Fifty per cent of the people here don´t have a job.
MUTUAL EQUIVALENT
g) A Yesterday was Sunday.
B Today is Monday.
EQUIVALENT
i) A He died.
EQUIVALENT
EQUIVALENT
Predication