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1) the content of a sentence, its representational meaning, ¶3-4-1; the p. may be symbolized in the context of other primitive elements of the speech act, ¶3-5-1; 2) an ad hoc semantic feature as a sort of an artificial, ideal, abstract object in the context of a declarative sentence, ¶3-5-1, figure 3, or of an action, event situation in the context of an imperative sentence, ¶3-5-3, figure 5; in language a p. is normally systematically ambiguous between the ideal residing in the mind and the physical object or action representing the ideal