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On the eliminatibility of ideal linguistic entities

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With reference to Polish logico-philosophical tradition two formal theories of language syntax have been sketched and then compared with each other. The first theory is based on the assumption that the basic linguistic stratum is constituted by object-tokens (concrete objects perceived through the senses) and that the types of such objects (ideal objects) are derivative constructs. The other is founded on an opposite philosophical orientation. The two theories are equivalent. The main conclusion is that in syntactic researches it is redundant to postulate the existence of abstract linguistic entities. Earlier, in a slightly different form, the idea was presented in [27] and signalled in [26] and [25].

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Wybraniec-Skardowska, U. On the eliminatibility of ideal linguistic entities. Studia Logica 48, 587–615 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370210

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