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  2. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2013 June 6

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    These things happen - I'm very sorry. But it's not very important, and to suggest that in some way I have "sabotaged" an "adjudication" (which wasn't an adjudication anyway, it was an opinion) is as completely preposterous as the suggestion that the sentence can only be worded in one way. Anyway, not a matter for this page, I think.

  3. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    Another approach is to create a syntactically-well-formed, easily parsable sentence using nonsense words; a famous such example is "The gostak distims the doshes". Lewis Carroll 's Jabberwocky is also famous for using this technique, although in this case for literary purposes; similar sentences used in neuroscience experiments are called ...

  4. Reductio ad absurdum - Wikipedia

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    Reductio ad absurdum, painting by John Pettie exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1884. In logic, reductio ad absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or apagogical argument, is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction.

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    Reed–Kellogg diagram of the sentence. The sentence is unpunctuated and uses three different readings of the word "buffalo". In order of their first use, these are: a. a city named Buffalo. This is used as a noun adjunct in the sentence; n. the noun buffalo, an animal, in the plural (equivalent to "buffaloes" or "buffalos"), in order to avoid ...

  7. Nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Both assume that it is the sentence [x] that is doing the “asserting”, not just the philosopher’s misuse of it in the wrong context. Both Moore’s attempted “assertion” and the skeptic’s “denial” of ‘Here is one hand’ in the context of the British Academy are preposterous. Therefore, both claims are epistemic nonsense ...

  8. Woman Doesn’t Regret Proposing to Her Boyfriend - AOL

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    A woman is breaking tradition when it comes to proposals. Talitha Degier shared on TikTok that she decided to pop the question to her boyfriend — a choice she said she didn’t regret and which ...

  9. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."