Muhammad Nabiil Haliim

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English Semantics

An utterance is the USE by a particular speaker, on a particular occasion, of a piece of language,

such as a sequence of sentences, or a single phrase, or even a single word.

 Definition A PROPOSITION is that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative

sentence which describes some state of affairs.
 Definition of ‘proposition’ we explicitly mentioned declarative sentences, but
propositions are clearly involved in the meanings of other types of sentences, such as
interrogatives, which are used to ask questions, and imperatives, which are used to
convey orders.
 it was sensible to talk of a sentence being in a particular language, and also sensible to
talk of an utterance being in a particular language, although one cannot talk of a
proposition being in a particular language.