> I think there's a distinction to be made between the literal
> rendering of a sentence with or without pronoun in such languages
> (in which the "meaning" would be identical) and the illocutionary
> force which each is meant to carry. In formal semantics, "meaning"
> describes the former condition of identity, not the latter sense
> of pragmatics.
So then couldn't the difference between "We eat" and "we do eat" work for
this exercise?
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Jake