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There are various ways of studying human language. I want to contrast two such ways, and indicate which I shall adopt in what follows. Our point of departure will be some remarks which philosophers have made about semantics, but let me first offer a preliminary sketch of the two rather general ways in which we might conceive the study of natural language.