(见Soames 1997,Skepticism About Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-following Paradox)对这些怀疑论的论证的讨论超出了本文的范围,因此在接下来的文章中,我将简单地假设关于意义的怀疑论是错误的。 2. Semantic theories 语义理论 在当代语言哲学中,解释语义理论的主要进路似乎在原则上面临着一个绊脚...
【Here I focus on two sorts of “theory of meaning.” The first sort of theory—a semantic theory—is a theory which assigns semantic contents to expressions of a language. Approaches to semantics may be divided according to whether they assign propositions as the meanings of sentences and, i...
on the one hand, and the semantic relations between sentences on the other. The classical semanticist can, so to speak, explain the meanings of sentences one by one; there is no difficulty in explaining the meaning of a sentence without mentioning other sentences. By contrast, according...
Some of these criteria can often be found within the study of semantics. Semantics is the study of the "toolkit" for meaning. It tries to understand what meaning is as an element of language. Which is basically implies the study of how meaning in language is produced or created. Semantics...
of word meaning research in linguistics. In spite of the growing importance of the lexicon in linguistic theory, no overview of the main theoretical trends in lexical semantics is currently available. This book fills that gap by charting the evolution of the discipline from the mid nineteenth......
第二种被称为「含义的基础理论 Foundational Theory of Meaning」,它则旨在通过陈述事实来回答「表达式何以具有语义内容」。在一个简短的介绍后,我们将依次专门讨论这两类理论。 1. 两种含义的理论 在《General Semantics》中,David Lewis写道: I distinguish two topics: first, the description of possible ...
Research into logical syntax provides us the knowledge of the structure of sentences, while logical semantics provides a window into uncovering the truth of sentences. Therefore, it is natural to make sentences and truth the central concern when one deals with the theory of meaning logically. Altho...
Within the framework of Conceptual Semantics, a family of conceptual features and functions is developed that accounts for phenomena in the semantics of no... Ray,Jackendoff - 《Cognition》 被引量: 417发表: 1991年 Defining Emotion Concepts and want, in terms of which all areas of meaning, in...
easily distributed between more resources, meaning the potential velocity increase is also lower. The common phrase in delivery "Nine women can't make a baby in one month" relates to Brooks' Law, in particular, the fact that some kinds of work are not divisible or parallelisable. This is ...
of sentences which differ only in the substitution of these expressions must have the same truth-value. But (7) and (8) are such a pair of sentences, and needn’t have the same truth-value. The proponent of possible worlds semantics solves this problem by identifying the meaning of these...