The aim of this report is twofold: 1) to establish certain formal connections between three explicate for the concept of syntactic complexity, that have been discussed, in recent literature: degree of nesting, degree of self- embedding, and depth of postponed symbols, 2) to present a formal (and trivial) proof of what has been called elsewhere (2, p. 13] the Anti-Wittgenstein an Thesis: Not everything that can be said at all, can be said by using syntactically simple sentences exclusively. This thesis is shown to hold for all standards propositional.
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