treats them as statements that convey the information that the word mentioned on the left-hand side has a relevantly similar usage to the phrase on the right-hand side.  These meaning statements, however, do not explicitly say that the two expressions they each contain have the same usage.  Rather, each sentence presupposes that the person it is directed at already understands the background language, in this case English, and uses the expression on the right-hand side as an illustrating sortal to form an indexical predicate (forming a predicate by giving an example bearing the relevant property), which is then applied to the tokens picked out by the expression on the left-hand side of the sentence.  Sellars invented a device, dot-quotation, to express this formally.  Dot quotation forms a common noun (not a name) that applies to every item in any language that functions in a relevantly similar way to the quoted expression.  •Red• is a common noun true of any expression that functions like the English word ‘red.’ Thus, Sellars analyzes 