HOW TO ASSESS THEORIES OF MEANING? SOME NOTES ON THE METHODOLOGY OF SEMANTICS

• Authors: Lukáš Bielik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents a two-level approach to an assessment of meaning theories. To begin with, language is distinguished from language-model and, analogously, meaning is discerned from a model of meaning. The first level of a theory assessment is presented as dealing with the relation of a model of meaning to intra-theoretical aims and assumptions of a theory with specific language-model. The second level of assessment concerns ontological, epistemological, logical and other assumptions underlying the respective language-model. Finally, several questions are set forth as methodological directives for elucidating hidden assumptions behind the theories of meaning.

Keywords

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LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE MODEL; MEANING; METHODOLOGY; SEMANTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 325 – 337

Contributors

author

Lukáš Bielik

• Katedra logiky a metodológie vied, Filozofická fakulta UK, Šafárikovo nám. 6, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic