The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden

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"Assertion" is evidently ambiguous insofar as it can refer either
(1) to the concrete act of communication whereby a speaker makes or implies a truth-claim of some kind to some hearer; or
(2) to the abstract unit of language through which this truth-claim is made or implied.

Does this ambiguity reflect the difference between speech (= la parole) and language (= la lingue)?

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