Language and scientific explanation : Where does semantics fit in?

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Asoulin, Eran [VerfasserIn]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Reihen: Conceptual Foundations of Language ScienceVerlag: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Language Science Press, 2020Beschreibung: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:

9783961102631

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Zusammenfassung: This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of the psychological mechanisms in virtue of which meanings are generated. It is argued that a fruitful scientific explanation is one that aims to uncover the underlying mechanisms in virtue of which the observable phenomena are made possible, and that a scientific semantics should be doing just that. If this is the case, then a scientific semantics is unlikely to be externalist, for reasons having to do with the subject matter and form of externalist theories. It is argued that semantics construed hermeneutically is nevertheless a valuable explanatory projectPPN: PPN: 1778448941Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB

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