This problem may be similar to the situation in which current formal grammars allow nonsensical but parsable collections of words ( e.g. , `` colorless green ideas ... '' ) , while before the advent of Chomskyan formalisms , a sentence was defined as the smallest meaningful collection of words ; Fowler ( 1965 , p. 546 ) gives 10 definitions of a sentence .
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H W Fowler
Still , our definition of coherence may not be restrictive enough : two collections of sentences , one referring to `` black '' ( about black pencils , black pullovers , and black poodles ) , the other one about `` death '' ( war , cancer , etc. ) , connected by a sentence referring to both of these , could be interpreted as one paragraph about the new , broader topic `` black + death . '' This problem may be similar to the situation in which current formal grammars allow nonsensical but parsable collections of words ( e.g. , `` colorless green ideas ... '' ) , while before the advent of Chomskyan formalisms , a sentence was defined as the smallest meaningful collection of words ; Fowler ( 1965 , p. 546 ) gives 10 definitions of a sentence . It then seems worth differentiating between the creation of a new concept like `` black + death , '' with a meaning given by a paraphrase of the example collection of sentences , and the acceptance of the new concept -- storing it in R .
This problem may be similar to the situation in which current formal grammars allow nonsensical but parsable collections of words ( e.g. , `` colorless green ideas ... '' ) , while before the advent of Chomskyan formalisms , a sentence was defined as the smallest meaningful collection of words ; @@CITATION , p. 546 ) gives 10 definitions of a sentence .