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Meaning and meaning fulness in Fries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Jon Wheatley
Jon Wheatley*
Affiliation:
Queen’s University
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Extract

This paper is an attempt to deal with some of the things C. C. Fries has to say about meaning and to offer criticisms of the meaningfulness of some of the words and concepts he introduces and dismisses. This requires a good deal of preliminary work which, however, also has the merit of showing the sort of systematic error I would claim Fries makes.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , Spring 1964 , pp. 83 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1964

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References

1 Fries, C. C., The Structure of English (London, 1952)Google Scholar.

2 Wheatley, Jon, “A Note on the Emotive Theory,” Philosophy (July, 1959)Google Scholar.

3 See my paper to the Aristotelian Society, “Like,” published in the Proceedings of that Society for 1961-62.

4 The problem of defining words is a fascinating one. The author has written on it at far greater length in “How to Give a Word a Meaning,” forthcoming in Theoria.