okay guys, today i'm going to make riview about " Two Kinds of Semantics " by Richard Brown. so, here we go!!!
Background: in this post, he Sir Brown explained about
1. the disctinction between P and L semantics corresponds to what one take the semantic task to be.
2. back ground about why he took the semantics of a sentence to be a projection.
Elaborate or the supporting of the point in the background are:
1. one might take the semantics task to be that of giving the meaning of and truth conditions for is primarily a property of thoughts and the semantic task is to explain what property they have which allows them to play the role in behavior that they do. this is what he call P-semantics. on other hand, one might take the semantic task to be that of giving the meaning of senteces independently of their being used to express any thought. this way of thinking about semantics has it as simply a part of grammar. for the illustrate: if he say "Saul Kripke likes tea" he is talking with his dog and someone say it to others about the same topic. and both use the same sentence though the sentence refer to different objects (Strawson 1950/1958). so that we are call L-semantics.
2. He took the semantics of a sentece to be a projection because semantic structure is interpreted. contents of sentences are determined compositionally. Semantic information about sentences is part of sentence grammar and it includes information about expressions whose meanings are relevant to use rather that to truth conditions. Linguistically encoded information can pertain to how the present utterance relates to the previous, to the topic of the present utterance, or to what the speaker is doing. That there are these sorts of linguistically encoded information shows that the business of sentence semantics can not be confined to giving the proposition it expresses (Bach 1999).
so in conclution, both kinds of theories will be interested in giving the truth conditions of sentences.
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