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What is Said - A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
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What is Said - A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports (Hardcover, 1990 ed.)
Series: Philosophical Studies Series, 49
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The notion of what someone says is, perhaps surprisingly, some what
less clear than we might be entitled to expect. Suppose that I
utter to my class the sentence 'I want you to write a paper
reconciling the things Russell claims about propositions in The
Philosophy of Mathematics for next week'. A student who was unable
to get up in time for class that day asks another what I said about
the assignment. Several replies are in the offing. One, an oratio
recta or direct speech report, is 'He said, "I want you to write a
paper reconciling the things Russell claims about propositions in
The Philosophy of Mathematics for next week. '" Another, an oratio
obliqua or indirect speech report, consists in the response 'He
said that he wants us to write a paper reconciling . . . '. Yet
another, reflecting a perhaps accurate estimate of the task
involved, editorializes: 'He said he wants us to do the
impossible'. Or, aware of both this and my quaint custom of barring
those who have not successfully completed the assignment from the
classroom, one might retort 'He said he doesn't want to meet next
week'. Since 'says' is construable in these various ways, it is at
best unhelpful to write something like 'Alice said "Your paper is
two days late," thereby saying that Tom's paper was two days late."
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