Subsentential
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subsentential is an adjective meaning Less than a sentence.
Meaning
Less than a sentence.
Example Sentences
This looks like a candidate for a subsentential logical form and there may be various other cases of embedded fragments which have subsentential logical forms (appositional noun phrases, for instance).
Quine makes this claim at two levels: the level of whole sentences, and the level of subsentential expressions. At the level of subsentential expressions the claim is known as the thesis of the inscrutability of reference.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nonsentential, subnominal, submeaningful, subsignificant, subgrammatical, subcomplete.
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