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So in literature we have two (perhaps identical) syntactically articulate vocabularies, the terms of each taking the terms of the other as referents, with both of the resultant systems — the one a system of denotation, the other of exemplification — being syntactically articulate and semantically dense. Thus, even though a literary work is articulate and may exemplify or express what is articulate, endless search is always required here as in other arts to determine precisely what is exemplified or expressed.
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A version of this paper was read at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 1978.
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Sirridge, M. The moral of the story: Exemplification and the literary work. Philosophical Studies 38, 391–402 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00419338
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00419338