holophrastically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

holophrastic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

holophrastically (not comparable)

  1. In a holophrastic manner.
    • 2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
      Leitgeb writes: “Thus, according to Quine, while the stimulus meaning of an observation sentence can be identified with its meaning if the sentence is taken holophrastically, i. e. as a single-word expression ..., this is no longer possible if the observation sentence is not taken holophrastically, i. e. if it is taken analysed as being syntactically composed of meaningful parts” ( ibid ., p. 418; emphasis is mine).