@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Prior,Arthur N.}, subject = {Metalanguage}, note = {I 103 Metalanguage/Prior: Problem: "I say something wrong" cannot be the only thing I say. Then a meta language is necessary, otherwise follows an absurdity: I could choose a short time interval in which I could say nothing else. Also: the language in which the theorems are expressed, can not be the same as the language used in some other opportunities to do so. >Levels/order, >Description levels. A hierarchy is possible without metalanguage : e.g. "N": "something that Prior says between t and t is not the case": then: N is a true sentence if and only if ... something is not the case. ((s) Without quotation marks). E.g. VsMetalanguage. "I’ll be damned if grass is pink." ((s) quasi-operator). >Operators. Prior: "isolation" through "I’ll be". Solution: a meta-part of the language (isolated), no complete metalanguage. Cf. >Object language.}, note = { Pri I A. Prior Objects of thought Oxford 1971 Pri II Arthur N. Prior Papers on Time and Tense 2nd Edition Oxford 2003 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=247817} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=247817} }