Near-Synonymy and Lexical Choice

more formal de” nition. Indeed, near-synonyms are pervasive in language;examples are easy to ” nd.Lie, falsehood, untruth, ” b,andmisrepresentation,for instance, are near-synonyms of one another. All denote a statement that does not conform to the truth, but they differ from one another in ” ne aspects of their denotation. ................
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