Talk:Use-mention distinction
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"We mention "our vast nuclear arsenal" so as to make it unnecessary to use it" -- Douglas Hofstadter
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"We mention "our vast nuclear arsenal" so that we won`t have to use it." -- Douglas Hofstadter
I think that the former is the correct, but I don't have Metamagical Themas to check it with. This quotation would be an excellent example.
Paullusmagnus 21:15, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- I looked it up, but I don't see an obvious way of working it into the article. The quotation is:
- We mention "our gigantic nuclear arsenal" in order not to use it.
- -- Douglas R. Hofstadter, in Metamagical Themas
- (Page 43 of the 1996 Penguin paperback edition, ISBN 0-14-008534-3.)
- --AlanBarrett 22:02, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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The example under "journalism" is way out of date - as it turns out, some of the allegations were true and Jeffrey Archer is a crook. Anyone think of a new one? Onebyone 18:24, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)