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As we have seen in our investigation of NIVEAU zero, using a language for saying things in the full—blooded sense of ‘saying’ — i.e. making utterances with conventional meanings — does not depend on the language having sentence meanings. In NIVEAU zero, there are no sentence meanings because none of its signs have a meaning, the simple reason being this: Rules which specify utterance meanings do so without taking into account any differences between the signs which are used; since they succeed in doing this, it would be idle to posit meanings to signs.
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von Savigny, E. (1988). The same case for sentence meaning: NIVEAU. In: The Social Foundations of Meaning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73464-9_7
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