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What does Tarski mean when he says "variables do not posses any meaning by themselves"?

This is an excerpt from Alfred Tarski's Introduction to Logic and the Methodology of Deductive Sciences: As variables we employ, as a rule, selected letters, e.g. in arithmetic the small letters of ...
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