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SEMANTICS - Coggle Diagram
SEMANTICS
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Sentences
neither a physical event nor a physical object. It is, conceived abstractly, a string of words put together by the grammatical rules of a language
a sentence can be thought of as the IDEAL string of words behind various realizations in utterances and inscriptions.
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Types of meaning
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sentences meaning
what a sentence (or word) means, i.e. what it counts as the equivalent of in the language concerned.
Utterances
any stretch of talk, by one person, before and after which there is silence on the part of that person.
the use by a particular speaker, on a particular occasion, of a piece of language, such as a sequence of sentences, or a single phrase, or even a single word
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A theory
a precisely specified, coherent, and economical frame-work of interdependent statements and definitions, constructed so that as large a number as possible of particular basic facts can either be seen to follow from it or be describable in terms of it.
Propositions
that part of the meaning of the utterance of a declarative sentence which describes some state of affairs.
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