Statement

A Statement is an communicable entity that expresses information (be a meaning carrier).

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Real Statement (such as a factual statement) to being an Unreal Statement (such as a counterfactual conditional).
  • It can range from being a Formal Statement to being an Informal Statement.
  • It can range from being a Declarative Statement to being a Query Statement.
  • It can range from being a Human Processable Statement to being a Machine Processable Statement (such as a computer program statement).
  • It can range from being a Non-Conditional Statement to being a Conditional Statement.
  • It can (often) represent a Belief.
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• Example(s):
  • a Proposition.
  • a Common Sense Statement.
  • a Poetic Line.
  • a Software Statement.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Concept.
  • a Randomly Generated Sentence?
  • an Illusion.
• See: Expression, Truth Condition, Tautological Statement.

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References

2013

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/statement
  1. A declaration or remark.
  2. A presentation of opinion or position.

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=statement
  • S: (n) statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc) "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
  • S: (n) argument, statement (a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true) "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
  • S: (n) statement ((music) the presentation of a musical theme) "the initial statement of the sonata"
  • S: (n) statement (a nonverbal message) "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention"
  • S: (n) affirmation, assertion, statement (the act of affirming or asserting or stating something)
  • S: (n) instruction, command, statement, program line ((computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program)
  • S: (n) statement, financial statement (a document showing credits and debits)

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