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use-mention distinction

noun

Definitions

  1. The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from…

    The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in cheese is derived from a word in Old English); an instance of this distinction.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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