Semantics
SEMANTICS conveniently divides into two branches, the theory of designation and/or denotation and the theory of meaning. The former constitutes extensional, the latter intensional semantics....
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Events in Semantic Theory
It is an ancient idea that many verbs are used to describe events—things that happen, in places and at times. Frank Plumpton Ramsey introduced an important twist, in t...
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Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning
There are two dominant approaches to semantics. One sees the task of semantics as to provide a systematic account of the truth conditions of (actual and potential) senten...
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Propositional Attitudes: Issues in Semantics
Propositional attitudes like knowledge, belief, and assertion play an important foundational role for semantic theory, the goal of which is to specify the ...
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Quantifiers in Natural Language
Quantifiers in natural language correspond to words such as every, some, most, few, and many others.
The Semantics of Determiners
What is the semantics of expressions l...
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Semantics
Semantics is the study of meaning. More specifically, semantics is concerned with the systematic assignment of meanings to the simple and complex expressions of a language. The best way to u...
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Semantics, History of [addendum]
In the 1960s, the semantics in vogue in linguistics seems to have favored some kind of decompositional approach. Consider kinship terms. Taking P to mean "paren...
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Semantics, History Of
The scope of this article is in part determined by the following restrictions. (1) Although the development of semantics in the twentieth century equals or surpasses all that was...
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Syntactical and Semantical Categories
The basis for any theory of syntactical categories is the linguistic fact that in all natural languages there are strings of (one or more) words which are mutuall...
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The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Bentham
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) did almost all his work in philosophy of language during the last twenty years of his life, primarily under the influen...
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Semantics
Events in Semantic Theory