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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Meaning Is What We Do With
It Ludwig Wittgensteinintroduced a different way of
thinking about meaning, a common-sense way that identifies meaning with use.
The meaning of something is what we do with it. This led to
Conceptual/functional/inferential/procedural role semantics. Similarly, proof-theoretic
semantics, spearheaded in the 1940s by the German mathematician Gerhard Gentzen, takes the meaning of a proposition to be defined by the role that the
proposition plays within the system of inference. Back to the beginning of the chapter "Meaning: Journey to the Center of the Mind" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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