Some Limitations to the Psychological Orientation in Semantic Theory

Some Limitations to the Psychological Orientation in Semantic Theory

The psychological orientation treats semantics as a matter of idealized computation over symbolic structures, and semantic relations like denotation as relations between linguistic expressions and these structures. I argue that results similar to Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Tarski'...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of philosophical logic 2011-02, Vol.40 (1), p.1-14
1. Verfasser: Thomason, Richmond H.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Artificial intelligence
Cognitive psychology
Denotational semantics
Education
Language
Linguistics
Logic
Mathematical psychologism
Mathematics
Meaning
Philosophy
Phosphorus content
Predicates
Psychology
Semantic relations
Semantics
Theory
Truth
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Zusammenfassung:The psychological orientation treats semantics as a matter of idealized computation over symbolic structures, and semantic relations like denotation as relations between linguistic expressions and these structures. I argue that results similar to Gödel's incompleteness theorems and Tarski's theorem on truth create foundational difficulties for this view of semantics.
ISSN:0022-3611
1573-0433
DOI:10.1007/s10992-010-9151-5