Theories of Meaning. Speaks, J. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, Spring 2017 edition, 2017. ![Theories of Meaning [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex The term “theory of meaning” has figured, in one way oranother, in a great number of philosophical disputes over the lastcentury. Unfortunately, this term has also been used to mean a greatnumber of different things. , Here I focus on two sorts of “theory of meaning.” Thefirst sort of theory—a semantic theory—is a theory whichassigns semantic contents to expressions of a language. Approaches tosemantics may be divided according to whether they assign propositionsas the meanings of sentences and, if they do, what view they take ofthe nature of these propositions., The second sort of theory—a foundational theory ofmeaning—is a theory which states the facts in virtue of whichexpressions have the semantic contents that they have. Approaches tothe foundational theory of meaning may be divided into theories whichdo, and theories which do not, explain the meanings of expressions ofa language used by a group in terms of the contents of the mentalstates of members of that group.
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