Abstract
It is commonly assumed that natural languages, construed as sets of sentences, contain denumerably many sentences. One argument for this claim is that the sentences of a language must be recursively enumerable by a grammar, if we are to understand how a speaker-hearer could exhibit unbounded competence in a language. The paper defends this reasoning by articulating and defending a principle that excludes the construction of a sentence non-denumerably many words long.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 199-207 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Croatian Journal of Philosophy |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2010 |