Questions tagged [use-mention]

It is commonplace to see warnings in introductory philosophy texts about not confusing use and mention, but I can't imagine how any reasonably analytical thinker could make such an error, so I've never seen the point of this warning. I occasionally…

When we 'mention' a word in a sentence e.g: 'Car' has three letters. We denote it by writing it in apostrophes or quotation marks, however, we still write the word to specify the word, is it in some sense denoting itself? There are often apostrophes…