Full Idea
We can look at semantics from the point of view of how truth values are determined by instantiations of properties and relations, or by asking how we can build, using the resources of the language, a proposition corresponding to a given semantic pattern.
Gist of Idea
We can do semantics by looking at given propositions, or by building new ones
Source
José L. Zalabardo (Introduction to the Theory of Logic [2000], §3.6)
Book Reference
Zalabardo,José L.: 'Introduction to the Theory of Logic' [Westview 2000], p.109
A Reaction
The second version of semantics is model theory.