Full Idea
An inferential role semantics is generally seen as a large-scale alternative to a semantics based on reference and other language-world relations.
Gist of Idea
Inferential role semantics is an alternative to semantics that connects to the world
Source
Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 03.4.5)
Book Reference
Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.72
A Reaction
Presumably the other obvious language-world relation is truth. Being a robust realist, I take it I have to be strongly committed to semantics which connects to the world - or do I? Reality is robust, but our talk about it is evasive?