Meaning of pirot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
2. A city in south-eastern Serbia, administrative centre of the district of the same name.
3. An administrative district in south-east Serbia; in full, Pirot District.

Examples

“Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).”

“Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.”

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