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II 120
Language infinite: ((s) = thesis that there are infinitely many sentences of a natural language):
Fodor pro: in any case, artificial production is possible:
1) by a complete grammar,
2) by descriptions, which have a semantic influence on the grammatical forms (e.g. if an adjective is syncategorematic), and
3) by a process that finds out, which of several dictionary entries is true.
>Grammar, >Lexicon, >Descriptions.
((s) For the question whether there are infinitely many sentences in a natural language, see the discussion here.)

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