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- adverb In a
metalinguistic manner or context.
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Examples
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S.arting with J.S. Mill (1843), empiricists tried to analyse counterfactuals ˜metalinguistically™ in terms of implication relations between statements.
My Shasta Daisy 2009
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Thankfully, these shortcomings can be filtered out metalinguistically once we realize that the meanings of their constituent terms depend on their corresponding mental concepts, which naturally signify the same for everyone.
John Buridan Zupko, Jack 2006
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