Semantics is studied for a number of different reasons but perhaps one of the main reasons could be: “If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication ...
Synthese, Vol. 195, No. 5, Special Issue on NEUROSCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY (May 2018), pp. 2175-2204 (30 pages) The argument from convention contends that the regular use of definite descriptions as ...
I discuss Paolo Casalegno's objections to my views about semantic normativity as presented in my book Lexical Competence (MIT Press, 1997) and in a later paper. I argue that, contrary to Casalegno's ...
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) software design promises to populate the world's networks with many small, lightweight, reusable programs that can automatically combine to perform a vast range of ...