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Levels of Abstraction - Coggle Diagram
Levels of Abstraction
Utterance
Any stretch of talk
by one person
Natural unit of speech
bounded by
breaths
pauses
Has
Time
Place
Speaker
Language
Characteristics
Not need to be
Grammatical
Ex. Hey!
Needs to be
uttered by
one person
at a specific
time
location
event
It can be any
piece of
language
Sentence
takes into consideration
grammatical rules of a
language
Group of words
that convey a
complete meaning
Ex. I cut the onions.
Propositions
The essential core meaning
behind a
sentence
Part of the
meaning of utterance
of a
declarative sentence
which describes
some state of affairs.
Fact about the world
which can be
true or false
Ex. Two plus two makes five.