Semantic Holism in Scientific Language

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10707151
AutoresHolger Andreas (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen77
Número4
Páginas524-543
Fecha de publicación2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/656007
OpenAlexW2136276455
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas16

Whether meaning is compositional has been a major issue in linguistics and formal philosophy of language for the last 2 decades. Semantic holism is widely and plausibly considered as an objection to the principle of semantic compositionality therein. It comes as a surprise that the holistic peculiarities of scientific language have been rarely addressed in formal accounts so far, given that semantic holism has its roots in the philosophy of science. For this reason, a model-theoretic approach to semantic holism in the language of science is presented here. This approach preserves compositionality to a large extent

Cognitive science · Epistemology · Holism · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Philosophy of science · Principle of compositionality · Surprise · Computer Science · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Semantic Web and Ontologies