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Definition of Use-mention distinction
1. Noun. (linguistics philosophy) A distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in "Cheese is derived from milk") and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in "''Cheese'' is derived from a word in Old English"). ¹
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