Meaning
Categories
- Indeterminacy (2)
- Inferential Role Semantics (3)
- Narrow Content (4)
Links
Good Works On Earth
http://www.goodworksonearth.org/
Researches the art and science of the Lexigram and argues that the power of the word is far greater than we have been led to believe, or allowed to imagine.
Holism in Artificial Intelligence?
http://www.lettere.unige.it/sif/strutture/9/epi/hp/penco/pub/holism.htm
Argues against the idea that research in AI supposes meaning holism, and against classifying Wittgenstein as a meaning holist. By Carlo Penco.
Introduction to Semantics
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ai/samples/nlp/semantics.html
Introductory article by Richard Spencer-Smith which explains Frege's distinction between sense and reference.
Meaning Realism
http://sowi.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at/Sorites/Meaning.html
In this article Manuel Liz argues that meaning realism and the rejection of holism are compatible even if one rejects the analytic/synthetic division.
Propositional Attitude Reports
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prop-attitude-reports/
Explores semantic accounts of propositional attitude reports, and some of the theories developed to deal with Frege's puzzle. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Thomas J. McKay.
Psychosemantics
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/fodor.htm
Review by Daniel C. Dennett of Fodor's book. Appeared in Journal of Philosophy, 1987.