What Nonsense Might Be

Philosophy 56 (215):5 - 22 (1981)
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There is a natural view of nonsense, which owes what attraction it has to the apparent absence of alternatives. In Frege and Wittgenstein there is a view which goes against the natural one, and the purpose of this paper is to establish that it is a possible view of nonsense

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