contextual indication, evident to those addressed and known through self-evident knowledge and common sensory experience, is among the indications inseparable from the discourse. It is more forceful than the accompanying verbal indications. If accompanying verbal indications prevent the apparent meaning of the discourse from being what it would mean without those verbal qualifications, then this indication does so all the more. It is well known that the apparent meaning of discourse qualified by an exception, a condition, or a description is not what it would signify without that exception, condition, or description. The same applies to this contextual indication, for understanding what discourse signifies necessarily requires the addressee to know the speaker, his circumstances, and the language in which he addresses him. That being so, this knowledge is what