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Language and scientific explanation : Where does semantics fit in?

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This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of the psychological mechanisms in virtue of which meanings are generated. It is argued that a fruitful scientific explanation is one that aims to uncover the underlying mechanisms in virtue of which the observable phenomena are made possible, and that a scientific semantics should be doing just that. If this is the case, then a scientific semantics is unlikely to be externalist, for reasons having to do with the subject matter and form of externalist theories. It is argued that semantics construed hermeneutically is nevertheless a valuable explanatory project.

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Series Title

Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 5

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401.3 ASO l

Publisher

Berlin : ., 2020

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Language

English

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978-3-96110-263-1

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401.3

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Semantics

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Asoulin, Eran

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maya

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