Lexicon of Arguments

 

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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.