How Long Can a Sentence Be and Should Anyone Care?

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作者：
Collins, John [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ E Anglia, Sch Philosophy, Norwich NR4 7TJ, Norfolk, England
来源：
CROATIAN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY | 2010年 / 10卷 / 30期
关键词：
infinity; internalism; languages;
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中图分类号：
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要：
It is commonly assumed that natural languages, construed as sets of sentences, contain denumerably many sentences. One argument for this claim is that the sentences of a language must be recursively enumerable by a grammar, if we are to understand how a speaker-hearer could exhibit unbounded competence in a language. The paper defends this reasoning by articulating and defending a principle that excludes the construction of a sentence non-denumerably many words long.
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页数：9
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