Use-mention-distinction Definition

noun

(linguistics, philosophy) A distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in "Cheese is derived from milk") and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in "Cheese is derived from a word in Old English").

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Noun

Singular:
use-mention-distinction
Plural:
use-mention-distinctions

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UUSUSE

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NONION

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