For example, it is highly unlikely that this sentence has ever been written or spoken before: “My extraordinarily large elbows are the color of the evening sky in Guatemala.” And, although you have never seen it or heard it before, you can still understand what the sentence means…no matter how bizarre its meaning might be!
My extraordinarily large elbows are the color of the evening sky in Guatemala.
Symbolism | Generativity |
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Words “refer” to other things What a word “refers” to is often its meaning | We can create and understand an infinite number of meaningful sentences |