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Serious people know, thanks to French linguistic sophist Jacques Derrida, about the finite number of "sayables".

Tory Commentators: Tending To Mickey Mousketeerery 2007
Serious people know, thanks to French linguistic sophist Jacques Derrida, about the finite number of "sayables".

Archive 2007-09-23 2007
Do you not understand Danny, and Dizzy, that there are only so many "sayables"?

Archive 2007-09-23 2007
Do you not understand Danny, and Dizzy, that there are only so many "sayables"?

Derrida He Say: "There are Only Just So Many Sayables" 2007
Sayables also include questions and commands on the one hand, and, in a category of sayables called

Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
This may appear utterly ad hoc, and it is possibly wrong, given the Stoics 'views about ˜sayables™ (lekta); but it is exactly the response that Chrysippus should make.

Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
But I'll not be the only one. there are only so many sayables after all.

Lyrical Terrorist: Samina Malik Wins Poetic Justice 2008
Stoic propositions are unlike propositions in contemporary theories in another way too: Stoic sayables are not timelessly true or false.

Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
But propositions (axiÃ´mata) are only one subspecies of sayables.

Stoicism Baltzly, Dirk 2008
Clearly in writing a political pitch the sayables list is shorter still.

Tory Commentators: Tending To Mickey Mousketeerery 2007