Chris & All: (01)
I'm really glad this topic came up again. I had raised a few issue that
were never fully resolved and I hope you could help me better understand
your approach to differentiating truth and meaning. (02)
You may recall this past thread ... (03)
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2008-05/msg00224.html (04)
Christopher Menzel wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Len Yabloko wrote:
>> Chris,
>>
>> Firstly due to the lack of any viable alternative theory of meaning
>> and information (please correct me if I am wrong).
>
> <snip, snip some good stuff here>
> the last 50 years. The literature on is vast, indeed overwhelmingly
> so. Somewhat randomly and off the top of my head: There is, to begin
> with, so-called "Tarskian" semantics for first-order predicate logic
> and the influential Davidsonian project of using that semantics as a
> basis for a theory of meaning. (05)
My understanding is that Tarski presents a "Semantic Conception of
Truth" and that's very different than meaning. I am led to belive this
because Tarski differentiates between truth and meaning in his paper of
the same name as does Pat Hayes in the RDF semantics. (06)
I have enjoyed reading the following Scott Soames paper which refutes
the Davidsonian program's attempts to derive a theory of meaning from a
theory of truth. (07)
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~soames/forthcoming_papers/Truth_and_Meaning.pdf (08)
The Soames paper then concludes that meaning is relational and requires
an interpretant. (09)
I wonder what other folks think. (010)
<more snips of other great stuff, many thanks Chris ...> (011)
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