Full Idea
Sentence meaning radically underdetermines the content of what is said.
Gist of Idea
Content is much more than just sentence meaning
Source
John Searle (The Rediscovery of the Mind [1992], Ch. 8.II)
Book Reference
Searle,John R.: 'The Rediscovery of the Mind' [MIT 1999], p.181
A Reaction
We have body language, and we have tone, and we have context, and we have speaker's and listener's meanings. I take sentence meaning to be the basis which makes the rest possible.
Related Idea
Idea 6168 The content of a thought is just the meaning of a sentence [Rowlands]