Single Idea 2434

[catalogued under 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics]

Full Idea

Broad semantic theories generally hold that the basic semantic properties of thoughts are truth and denotation.

Gist of Idea

Broad semantics holds that the basic semantic properties are truth and denotation

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §1.2b)

Book Reference

Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.7


A Reaction

I think truth and denotation are the basic semantic properties, but I am dubious about whole-hearted broad semantic theories, so I seem to have gone horribly wrong somewhere.