Concept
Semantics
Overview
study of meaning in language
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Philosophers who discussed Semantics
- Bas van Fraassen
- John Searle
- David Kaplan (philosopher)
- Stephen Toulmin
- Mario Bunge
- Richard Rorty
- Anselm of Canterbury
- J. L. Austin
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Thomas Kuhn
- Paul Grice
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Robert Stalnaker
- Jerry Fodor
- C. I. Lewis
- Saul Kripke
- Gottlob Frege
- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
- Nicholas Rescher
- J. N. Findlay
- Rudolf Carnap
- Alfred Tarski
- Richard Montague
Related ideas
- First-order logic
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Bhartṛhari
- Artificial intelligence
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Outline of ancient India
- Anaphora (linguistics)
- Grammatical tense
- Tuple
- Philosophy
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Word
- Interpretation (logic)
- Plural
- Charles W. Morris
- John Stuart Mill
- Literal and figurative language
- John Locke
- Truth value
- Idea
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Language
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Predicate (grammar)
Opposing perspectives
- Architecture
- Grammar
- Syntax
- Semiotics
- Symbol
- Meaning (philosophy)
- Pragmatics
- Episodic memory
- Truth
- Connotation
- Loanword
- Proposition
- Mediated reference theory
- Symbiosism
Place in the tradition
Part of Africana philosophy.