ABSTRACT
Suppose I said, ‘Is blue has mange’. Suppose none of my words did anything other than what, in English, they are for doing. In English, ‘is blue’ is for speaking of some indicated object as coloured blue. It can do that only where something indicates what has been said to be that way. In English, ‘has mange’ is not for that. Nor, in the present case, is there any other such device. So ‘is blue’ cannot have performed that function here. Nor, by hypothesis, did it perform any other. Similar remarks apply to ‘has mange’. So I did not say anything as to how things are. The words I used performed no function at all; a fortiori they said nothing.
