Palindrome (; "again") and ' (; "way, direction"). Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different
Disquotational principle speakers there (he does not speak English yet), and everyone refers to the city as "London," not "Londres". He finds this city decidedly unattractive, for the neighborhood he decides to live in is decidedly unattractive. Over time, he learns English, and formulates the belief that (2) ""London is not pretty"". Pierre never realizes that London is the English word for "Londres". Now with the disquotational principle, we can deduce from (1) that Pierre believes the proposition that "Londres est jolie". With a weak principle of translation (e.g., "a proposition in language A is the same as a semantically identical proposition