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pirot

pirot noun: a notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.

Noun

pirot (plural pirots)

  1. A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
    • Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).1988, Richard E. Grandy, Richard Warner, Philosophical Grounds of Rationality, page 31
    • Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.2005, S. Chapman, Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, page 123

Proper noun capitalized: Pirot

Pirot

  1. A city in south-eastern Serbia, administrative centre of the district of the same name.
  2. An administrative district in south-east Serbia; in full, Pirot District.

Forms of pirot

pluralpirots

Origin of pirot

Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pirot / Пирот.

Questions about pirot

What does pirot mean?
Pirot means a notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
What part of speech is pirot?
Pirot can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pirot?
The plural of pirot is pirots.

Words near pirot in the dictionary

  1. piroschki
  2. piroschkis
  3. piroshki
  4. piroshkis
  5. piroshok
  6. pirot
  7. pirots
  8. pirouette
  9. pirouetted
  10. pirouetter
  11. pirouetters

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