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The work on this paper was done in the research project ‘V\(\dot a\)ra begrepp om spr\(\dot a\)k’ supported byHumanistisk-samhälls-vetenskapliga forskningsr \(\dot a\) det. I am indebted to Per Martin-Löf, Hans Ruin, Pär Segerdahl, and Sven Öhman for valuable comments on a previous version of this paper. Thanks to the comments of the anonymous referee I was able to improve some formulations in the paper.

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Stenlund, S. On the concept of language in some recent theories of meaning. Synthese 79, 51–98 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00873256

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