The whole meaning of a sentence as opposed to that of an individual word ( lexical vs grammatical meaning). In philosophy and logic, sentence meaning is readily equated with propositions or, for the sake of simplicity, with truth values and thereby...

Norms are sentences or sentence meanings with practical, i. e. action-oriented (rather than descriptive, explanatory, or expressive) import, the most common of which are commands, permissions, and prohibitions. Another popular account of norms describes...