English Dictionary

use-mention distinction

名詞

(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").

日本語の意味

（言語学・哲学）単語がその意味として使われる場合と、単語自体を語彙ユニットとして引用・言及する場合との区別。例えば、「チーズがミルクから派生した」という文における「チーズ」の使い方と、『チーズ』という単語が古英語の語から派生したという引用の違いを示す概念。

In the seminar, she clarified the use-mention distinction by contrasting sentences that use words with those that merely mention them.

ゼミで彼女は、語を用いる文と語を単に言及する文とを対比することで、使用と言及の区別を明確にした。

意味（1）

(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").

Thus, they purport to expand the domain of our judgments beyond all bounds of experience through concepts to which no corresponding object at all can be given in experience. For convenience, we ignore use-mention distinctions here and elsewhere.

use-mention distinctions （ plural ）