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When did you last say to someone that you had a headache? Did the listener understand what you meant? If you now reply “yes”, how do you know that? Perhaps she usually means by the term “headache” something different than you do.
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (2015). The Syntax and Semantics of Medical Language. In: Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9579-1_2
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