Rather, the real content of (M i.e., what typical utterances of this sentence really say is that there are two Martian moons.
Even if the embedding problem is solved, so that we know what moral utterances mean and what complex sentences embedding them also mean, we might still think it irrational to reason in accordance with ordinary logical principles applied to such judgments.
Topic is what an utterance is about and represents the most prominent discourse element, which occurs sentence-initially in Chinese.
The perlocutionary force is the indirect meaning of the message, roughly characterized by what the utterance makes another agent believe.
In the literature on implicature, what an utterance implicates is generally equated with what the speaker implicates rather than what the sentence implicates.
While (39) may seem true and (41) may seem false, this is because we conflate what an utterance of these sentences pragmatically implicates, suggesting that Sally would accept the complement clause used to report what she believes.
(Keep in mind, though, a point stressed in Section 2: namely, that just what an utterance of such a sentence expresses changes, in the 'high stakes' case, to some more demanding proposition we do not have a fixed such proposition, with different standards for its truth applying in the more demanding context).
This implies answering such questions as "what are words?", "how should words be individuated?", and "on what conditions two utterances count as utterances of the same word?".
Ged's master Ogion the Silent prods his restless apprentice with koan-like questions and utterances: "What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself?
Mr. Patek's transfer to Indonesia also offers an opportunity to answer another important question that has been the subject of contradictory reports and official utterances: What was a militant widely believed to be hiding in the Philippines doing in Abbottabad, where Bin Laden was killed by American Navy Seals in May? "Was he trying to meet Osama bin Laden?
