To know the meaning of a sentence is to know its truth-conditions. If I say to you [“There is a
bag of potatoes in my pantry”] you may not know whether what I said is true. What you do …

I had heard it said that Chomsky's conception of language is at odds with the truth-
conditional program in semantics. Some of my friends said it so often that the point—or at …

The autonomy of semantics Page 100 MJ CRESSWELL THE AUTONOMY OF SEMANTICS 1
I'm going to begin by telling you what I think is the most certain thing I know about meaning …

Most philosophers and linguists accept a certain conception of the notion of the literal
meaning of words and sentences and the relation between literal meaning and other …

Current textbooks in formal semantics are all versions of, or introductions to, the same
paradigm in semantic theory: Montague Grammar. Knowledge of Meaning is based on …

Preface There are many phenomena that could reasonably be included in the domain of
semantic theory. In this book we identify some of them and introduce general tools for …

As long as scholars have been talking about thinking, they have found themselves thinking
about talk, about humans" ability to use language. The relationship between language and …

Two conceptions of meaning have dominated formal semantics of natural language. The first
of these sees meaning principally as that which determines conditions of truth. This notion …

This book offers an introduction to the analysis of meaning. Our outstanding ability to
communicate is a distinguishing feature of our species. To communicate is to convey …

The term “theory of meaning” has figured, in one way or another, in a great number of
philosophical disputes over the last century. Unfortunately, this term has also been used to …