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Single Idea 16403
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics
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Full Idea
'Descriptive' semantics gives a semantics for the language without saying how practice explains why the semantics is right; …'foundational' semantics concerns the facts that give expressions their semantic values.
Gist of Idea
'Descriptive' semantics gives a system for a language; 'foundational' semantics give underlying facts
Source
Robert C. Stalnaker (Reference and Necessity [1997], §1)
Book Ref
Stalnaker,Robert C.: 'Ways a World Might Be' [OUP 2003], p.166
A Reaction
[compressed] Sounds parallel to the syntax/semantics distinction, or proof-theoretical and semantic validity. Or the sense/reference distinction! Or object language/metalanguage. Shall I go on?
The
26 ideas
with the same theme
[general ideas about assigning meaning to symbols]:
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15788
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Syntax and semantics are indeterminate, and modern 'semantics' is a bogus subject
[Quine, by Lycan]
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16461
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We still lack an agreed semantics for quantifiers in natural language
[Stalnaker]
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16403
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'Descriptive' semantics gives a system for a language; 'foundational' semantics give underlying facts
[Stalnaker]
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12616
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English has no semantic theory, just associations between sentences and thoughts
[Fodor]
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2434
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Broad semantics holds that the basic semantic properties are truth and denotation
[Fodor]
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12645
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Semantics (esp. referential semantics) allows inferences from utterances to the world
[Fodor]
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12646
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Semantics relates to the world, so it is never just psychological
[Fodor]
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7872
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Teleosemantics equates meaning with the item the concept is intended to track
[Papineau]
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13965
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Semantics as theory of meaning and semantics as truth-based logical consequence are very different
[Soames]
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14618
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Semantics is either an assignment of semantic values, or a theory of truth
[Fine,K]
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14621
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Semantics is a body of semantic requirements, not semantic truths or assigned values
[Fine,K]
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15587
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That two utterances say the same thing may not be intrinsic to them, but involve their relationships
[Fine,K]
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15589
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The two main theories are Holism (which is inferential), and Representational (which is atomistic)
[Fine,K]
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15596
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The standard aim of semantics is to assign a semantic value to each expression
[Fine,K]
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15598
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We should pursue semantic facts as stated by truths in theories (and not put the theories first!)
[Fine,K]
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15600
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Referentialist semantics has objects for names, properties for predicates, and propositions for connectives
[Fine,K]
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15601
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Fregeans approach the world through sense, Referentialists through reference
[Fine,K]
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19534
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How does inferentialism distinguish the patterns of inference that are essential to meaning?
[Williamson]
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19535
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Internalist inferentialism has trouble explaining how meaning and reference relate
[Williamson]
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19533
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Inferentialist semantics relies on internal inference relations, not on external references
[Williamson]
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18038
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The 't' and 'f' of formal semantics has no philosophical interest, and may not refer to true and false
[Williamson]
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18791
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In 'situation semantics' our main concepts are abstracted from situations
[Mares]
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19538
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Entailment is modelled in formal semantics as set inclusion (where 'mammals' contains 'cats')
[Dougherty/Rysiew]
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18053
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The semantics of a sentence is its potential for changing a context
[Magidor]
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14720
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Semantic theory assigns meanings to expressions, and metasemantics explains how this works
[Schroeter]
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17732
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Success semantics explains representation in terms of success in action
[Jenkins]
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