Re: closing semantic issues (reification)

Graham Klyne wrote:

> I vaguely remember that debate.  I'm not sure that those of us involved 
> really had a clear idea what was meant - speaking for myself, I didn't.  
> Looking back in hindsight, I think we were crudely trying to distinguish 
> between a "statement" as a linguistic/syntactic entity (a "token"), and 
> a "stating" being its interpretation (or its denotation under some 
> interpretation?).


It was other way round as I recall: statement is the abstraction, stating was 
the token/occurrence.

Brian