An Inferentialist Approach to Semantics

Time for a New Kind of Structuralism

Bibliographic Data

ID4079822
AuthorsJaroslav Peregrin (0000-0002-0460-1933, Czech Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume3
Issue6
Pages1208-1223
Publication date2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2008.00179.x
OpenAlexW2063239252
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited22

The perennial question -What is meaning?- receives many answers. In this paper I present and discuss inferentialism- a recent approach to semantics based on the thesis that to have (such and such) a meaning is to be governed by (such and such) a cluster of inferential rules. I point out that this thesis presupposes that looking for meaning requires seeing language as a social institution (rather than, say, a psychological reality). I also indicate that this approach may be seen as a new embodiment of the old ideas of structuralism

Epistemology · Institution · Linguistics · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History

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