On 6/27/2017 6:08 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote:
Thanks for making what might otherwise appear confusing and complex,
clear and simple.
I hope I didn't make it too clear and simple -- because I agree with
Peirce (and with modern lexicographers) that word senses are definitely
not clear and simple. I was simply pointing out some issues that Peirce
had discussed in various ways. In particular, most of the ways of using
a proposition happen can be described by nominalized verbs.
In _How to do things with words_, Austin said more about such issues:
http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2271128:3/component/escidoc:2271430/austin_1962_how-to-do-things-with-words.pdf
For good observations by modern lexicographers (Sue Atkins and
Adam Kilgarriff), see the article "I don't believe in word senses":
https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/I_dont_believe_1997.pdf
John
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