Two-Dimensional Semantics and Sameness of Meaning

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ID4910725
AuthorsLaura Schroeter (0000-0003-2561-9021, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume8
Issue1
Pages84-99
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2012.00535.x
OpenAlexW1561610340
LanguageEN
References cited42

In recent years, two-dimensional (2D) semantics has been used to develop a broadly descriptivist approach to meaning that seeks to accommodate externalists' counterexamples to traditional descriptivism. The 2D possible worlds framework can be used to capture a speaker's implicit dispositions to identify the reference of her words on the basis of empirical information about her actual environment. Proponents of 2D semantics argue that this aspect of linguistic understanding plays the core theoretical role of meanings: 2D semantics allows us to specify a reference-fixing criterion implicit mastery of which constitutes semantic competence a particular meaning

Computational semantics · Counterexample · Epistemology · Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Operational semantics · Philosophy of language · Possible world · Programming language · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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