List, Jon > On Jan 25, 2019, at 1:47 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > How should we characterize these various ways of uttering the same > Proposition? For example ... > We are going to the restaurant. > We are going to the restaurant? > We are going to the restaurant! These three sentence have three different meaning if one takes the propositional logic of punctuation seriously.
> The only change here is the punctuation at the end, but I trust that the > reader can imagine how these three sentences would also sound quite different > when spoken, rather than written. Certainly not this reader! The differences that makes a difference in these three sentences are semes at the end that are very meaningful. The meanings of the spoken forms depends on the context of the entire situation, especially the tone of voice and interpersonal relationships so it is hardly relevant to the semiotic interpretations of the alphabetic forms. Cheers Jerry
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