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2.9 Generativity Example

For example, it is highly unlikely that this sentence has ever been written or spoken before: “My extraordinarily large elbows are the color of the evening sky in Guatemala.” And, although you have never seen it or heard it before, you can still understand what the sentence means…no matter how bizarre its meaning might be!

My extraordinarily large elbows are the color of the evening sky in Guatemala.

SymbolismGenerativity
Words “refer” to other things

What a word “refers” to is often its meaning
We can create and understand an infinite number of meaningful sentences
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