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disquotation

noun

Etymology

From dis- + quotation.

  1. derived from quotō
  2. borrowed from quotātiō
  3. prefixed as disquotation — “dis + quotation”

Definitions

  1. The reversal of the process of quotation

    The reversal of the process of quotation; turning a quoted utterance into an actual statement

    • The universalist claims that ‘The Taj Mahal exists’ is true, so if she is right about what is true then ‘The Taj Mahal exists’ is true. By disquotation, then, the Taj Mahal exists.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disquotation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA