Abstract

A familiar use of quotation within indirect discourse reports is one that seems to indicate the very words used by the report’s subject, as in Lionel said that Joseph “is a horse’s patoot.” Are the words “is a horse’s patoot” here used?, mentioned?, both?, neither? Does this sentence entail that Lionel said that Joseph is a horse’s patoot? This chapter gives an account of such uses of quotation, proposing that the words are neither used nor mentioned in the philosopher’s sense.