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Here is a question that came up today while discussing Stanley's 'Context and logical form' with my students: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005599312747 Suppose someone says 'a world famous topologist'. Let's agree that it is clear in the context that they have asserted that Jane is a world famous topologist. Can we distinguish between the following views? 1. The utterance contains an unpronounced 'she'. 2. The utterance is not a complete sentence, but can be used to make an assertion. #philosophy