O „zdaniach wyratowanych”
On “saved sentences”

Summary/Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of the so-called “saved sentences”. The latter are defined here as phrases which are aimed at testing the semantic component of a certain expression and receive a qualification ‘semantically correct’, but only at the second attempt; at first they are judged as deviant (negative linguistic material). What makes them acceptable is first of all the unique feature of natural language to render diverse meanings coherent, yet the procedures of (moral) relativisation and thought experiment are also crucial here. The author illustrates the aforementioned operations with examples derived from the relevant literature, as well as with his own examples.

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