ABSTRACT
Traditional empiricists took sense experience to be composed of sense atoms, as it were, that are contingently associated in complex experiences, like that of seeing, handling, biting, chewing, tasting, smelling a crisp streaked reddish-yellow tart apple. The point of the contrast which follows is to bring out what is involved in the distinction between the meaning of a sentence and what an utterance of the sentence may be used to do, and in such related ideas as that of a Fregean thought. It’s been said that the good of a lamb is to be eaten by a Christian. This might mean that that is what lambs are good for or that that is what is good for them: it constitutes their good to be eaten, even if they don’t know that it does.
