Does semantics need reality?

Peter Gärdenfors

Published in the proceedings of the International Conference New Trends in Cognitive Science, Austrian Society of Cognitive Science Technical Report 97-01, Vienna, pp. 113-120.

Abstract

The article focuses on four questions for a theory of semantics: the ontological, semantic, learnability and communicative questions. It is shown how different realist, cognitivist and constructivist semantic theories answer the questions.

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