Quotation vs Disquotation - What's the difference?
quotation | disquotation |
A fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else. Most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc., may be quoted.
The act of naming a price; the price that has been quoted.
(philosophy) The reversal of the process of quotation; turning a quoted utterance into an actual statement
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, passage=The universalist claims that ‘The Taj Mahal exists’ is true, so if she is right about what is true then ‘The Taj Mahal exists’ is true. By disquotation , then, the Taj Mahal exists. }}
As nouns the difference between quotation and disquotation
is that quotation is a fragment of a human expression that is repeated exactly by somebody else most often a quotation is taken from literature or speech, but scenes from a movie, elements of a painting, a passage of music, etc, may be quoted while disquotation is (philosophy) the reversal of the process of quotation; turning a quoted utterance into an actual statement.quotation
English
(wikipedia quotation)Noun
(en noun)- "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
- Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
