While looks like the examples you gave all express the same—being hungry—the differences can and do matter for humans.
Reading between the lines.
Cues about emotional states
Indicators of individual differences (
If you focus on the object level these might not make difference but I’d argue that they should be taken into account. This reduces the size of the null space as also suggested by Hoagy.
Or looked at in reverse it seems that human language use shows that our subconsciousness does already hide meaning in the sentences that consciously seem the same.
While looks like the examples you gave all express the same—being hungry—the differences can and do matter for humans.
Reading between the lines.
Cues about emotional states
Indicators of individual differences ( If you focus on the object level these might not make difference but I’d argue that they should be taken into account. This reduces the size of the null space as also suggested by Hoagy.
Or looked at in reverse it seems that human language use shows that our subconsciousness does already hide meaning in the sentences that consciously seem the same.