SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Zirconium Dioxide, Barack Obama, Logical Consequence

• School: GWU
• Department: Speech and Hearing Science
• Course: SPHR 2130
• Professor: Schulz

Document Summary

The meaning of words and other lexical expressions, including the meaning relationships between them. How lexical meanings combine to give rise to phrasal meanings and how phrasal meanings are assembled. E(cid:454): (cid:862)cat(cid:863) (cid:373)ight (cid:271)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g up i(cid:373)ages of (cid:272)ats, the thought of allergies, the fact that they have fur, that they are related to lions, etc. The relationship of an expression to the world; the collection of all the referents of an expression. E(cid:454): (cid:862)cat(cid:863) (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374) pi(cid:272)k out those thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld that a(cid:396)e cats from those that are not by virtue of knowing the sense of (cid:862)(cid:272)at(cid:863) In order to know the reference of some expression it is necessary to know its sense. But, knowing the sense does not guarantee you will invariably be able to pick out its referents. E(cid:454): (cid:862)dia(cid:373)o(cid:374)ds(cid:863), (cid:455)ou k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the se(cid:374)se (cid:271)ut (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:374)ot (cid:271)e a(cid:271)le to tell a real diamond from a zirconia. Possible for expressions to have sense but no referents.