Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 228f
Name/object/direct speech/quote/tradition/Searle: e.g. the sheriff spoke the words "Mr. Howard is an honest man".
II 231
For the traditional conception the direct speech here involves no words (but names of words do).
>Description level, cf. >Indirect speech.
II 232
SearleVsTradition: of course we can talk about words with words.
>Metalanguage.
Also, no new names are created here, the syntactic position often not even allows to set up a name.
II 233
E.g. Gerald said he would Henry (is ungrammatical). Solution: a simple repetition of the words, not the name of a proposition.
>Proposition.
III 229
Disquotation: disquotation is not sufficient for the analysis of a fact: e.g. that this object is red.