Minimal oral communication would require you to say at least "give salt" rather than "salt" - so the two expressions are not equivalent (of equal value) as they do NOT give the same information.
very good logician's argument, glance <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/up.gif" alt="" /> but it could be objected that "salt" is always pronounced with a reference (intonation or gesture) that completed the universe...
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