• In situation theory, situation semantics (pioneered by Jon Barwise and John Perry in the early 1980s) attempts to provide a solid theoretical foundation...
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    Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends...
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    Language (section Semantics)
    connected to individual signs, morphemes, words, phrases, and texts is called semantics. The division of language into separate but connected systems of sign...
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  • sentences are addressed in the field of linguistics of syntax. Philosophical semantics tends to focus on the principle of compositionality to explain the relationship...
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  • Situation theory provides the mathematical foundations to situation semantics, and was developed by writers such as Jon Barwise and Keith Devlin in the...
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  • Proposition (category Semantics)
    A proposition is a central concept in the philosophy of language, semantics, logic, and related fields, often characterized as the primary bearer of truth...
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    metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is known primarily for his work on situation semantics (together with Jon Barwise), reflexivity, indexicality, personal...
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  • In logic, the semantics of logic or formal semantics is the study of the meaning and interpretation of formal languages, formal systems, and (idealizations...
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  • "The Semiotic Aspect of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics" (PDF). ETC: A Review of General Semantics. 1. 40 (1). JSTOR: 16–21. doi:10.5840/cpsem19828...
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    Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism...
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  • In logic and semantics, the term statement is variously understood to mean either: a meaningful declarative sentence that is true or false,[citation needed]...
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  • Formal semantics is the scientific study of grammatical meaning in natural languages using formal concepts from logic, mathematics and theoretical computer...
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  • linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and...
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  • illustrated his idea of mediation via Buridan's ass paradox. A problematic situation of choosing between two equal possibilities interested Vygotsky primarily...
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  • In semantics, mathematical logic and related disciplines, the principle of compositionality is the principle that the meaning of a complex expression...
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  • Speech act (category Semantics)
    propositional content (given with classical semantics) and illocutionary force (given by intuitionistic semantics). Up to now the main basic formal applications...
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    for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations. Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given...
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  • 2001. Saeed, John I. (2003). Sentence semantics 1: Situations: Modality and evidentiality. In J. I Saeed, Semantics (2nd. ed) (Sec. 5.3, pp. 135–143). Malden...
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  • General semantics is a school of thought that incorporates philosophic and scientific aspects. Although it does not stand on its own as a separate school...
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  • Kratzer, semanticist whose expertise includes modals, situation semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface Angelika Machinek (1956–2006), German glider...
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  • Phallogocentrism Relevance theory Semantic externalism Semantic holism Situation semantics Structuralism Supposition theory Symbiosism Theological noncognitivism...
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  • Two-dimensionalism is an approach to semantics in analytic philosophy. It is a theory of how to determine the sense and reference of a word and the truth-value...
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