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26 sty 2010 · A semantic theory which respects the principle that the meanings of sentences are derived from the meanings of words plus the way in which those words are combined is called a ‘compositional’ semantic theory.
- Word Meaning
Word meaning has played a somewhat marginal role in early...
- Tense and Aspect
For this purpose, their semantic framework must be connected...
- Meaning Holism
The term “meaning holism” is generally applied to views that...
- Quantifiers and Quantification
A categorical proposition is a sentence obtained from one of...
- Proof-Theoretic Semantics
Furthermore, unlike “theory of meaning”, the term...
- Two-Dimensional Semantics
A metasemantic theory will tell us what makes it the case...
- Situations in Natural Language Semantics
1. Situations in direct perception reports. Situations...
- Relativism
Pierre Duhem’s (1861–1916) thesis of underdetermination of...
- Word Meaning
What is Meaning? addresses “an unsolved problem at the heart of our conception of what meaning is, and what we want from a theory of meaning” (p. 2). The problem is whether propositions, as they are traditionally conceived, can play the roles intended for them in theories of language and mind.
19 gru 2005 · The term ‘proposition’ has a broad use in contemporary philosophy. It is used to refer to some or all of the following: the primary bearers of truth-value, the objects of belief and other “propositional attitudes” (i.e., what is believed, doubted, etc. ), the referents of that-clauses, and the meanings of sentences.
1 kwi 2014 · This article canvases significant attempts by philosophers to say what sorts of things propositions are. First, the classical views of propositions advanced by Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell are considered. Second, the view of propositions as sets of possible worlds is discussed.
Summary. Much contemporary theorizing about linguistic and mental representation takes place against a background conception of propositional content that is due to Gottlob Frege. This is not to say philosophers of language generally accept Frege’s view that propositions contain senses, as opposed to objects and properties.
This article first recounts the history of the truth-conditional conception of meaning from Frege to the present day, emphasizing both points that are neglected in receidev accounts of this history and points of permanent philosophical interest.
This chapter examines two crucial aspects of the metaphysics of meaning—propositions and possible world-states. It reviews why propositions—needed as meanings of sentences and objects of the attitudes—can neither be extracted from theories of truth conditions, nor defined in terms of possible world-states, It then explains why they also ...