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A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Land. San Francisco: Friends of the Earth. ISBN 1559635681; Hubbard, Phil, Rob Kitchen, and Gil Valentine, eds. 2004. Key Thinkers on Space and Place. London: Sage. ISBN 0-7619-4963-1; Inge, John A Christian Theology of Place, Ashgate, 2003. ISBN 0-7546-3498-1; Kunstler, James.
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
Paradox of place: If everything that exists has a place, that place must have a place, and so on ad infinitum. Paradox of the grain of millet : When a grain of millet falls it makes no sound, but when a thousand grains fall they do, thus many of nothing become something.
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Frege developed his original theory of meaning in early works like Begriffsschrift (concept paper) of 1879 and Grundlagen (Foundations of Arithmetic) of 1884. On this theory, the meaning of a complete sentence consists in its being true or false, [5] and the meaning of each significant expression in the sentence is an extralinguistic entity which Frege called its Bedeutung, literally meaning ...
Subordinators make relations between clauses, making the clause in which they appear into a subordinate clause. [35] Some common subordinators in English are: conjunctions of time, including after, before, since, until, when, while; conjunctions of cause and effect, including because, since, now that, as, in order that, so;
Literal usage confers meaning to words, in the sense of the meaning words have by themselves, [8] for example as defined in a dictionary. It maintains a consistent meaning regardless of the context, [9] with the intended meaning of a phrase corresponding exactly to the meaning of its individual words. [10]
An icon representing the concept of location. In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface.The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.