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Interpersonal Sameness of Meaning for Inferential Role Semantics

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Summary, in English

Inferential Role Semantics is often criticized for being incompatible with the platitude that words of different speakers can mean the same thing. While many assume that this platitude can be accommodated by understanding sameness of meaning in terms of similarity of meaning, no worked out proposal has ever been produced for Inferential Role Semantics. I rectify this important omission by giving a detailed structural account of meaning similarity in terms of graph theory. I go on to argue that this account has a number of attractive features, prominent among them that it makes sameness of meaning probabilistically determine co-reference.

Publishing year

2017-06

Language

English

Pages

269-297

Publication/Series

Journal of Philosophical Logic

Volume

46

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • Compositionality
  • Likeness of meaning
  • Meaning
  • Reference
  • Semantic similarity

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-3611