Another word for semantics
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- What is meant; what is intended to be, or in fact is, signified, indicated, referred to, or understood
- A sense of importance or purpose:
- Something that is conveyed or intended, especially by language; sense or significance:
- (Philos.) A general theory of signs and symbols; esp., the analysis of the nature and relationships of signs in language, usually including three branches, syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics
- The study of signs and symbols, especially as means of language or communication.
- A doctrine and educational movement concerned with the employment of an understanding of the relationship between symbols, esp. language, and reality to improve the adjustment of people to each other and to the environment
- An educational discipline based on the notion that certain techniques can enhance one's ability to evaluate and respond to the world
- A discipline developed by Alfred Korzybski that proposes to improve human behavioral responses through a more critical use of words and symbols.
- (Logic) Synonym for mathematical logic (obsolescent)
- A treatment of formal logic in which a system of symbols is used to represent quantities and relationships.
- A modern type of formal logic using special symbols for propositions, quantifiers, and relationships among propositions and concerned with the elucidation of permissible operations upon such symbols
- The science of signs in general
- The science that deals with signs or sign language.
- The use of signs in signaling, as with a semaphore.
- An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing:
- (Logic) The set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term; intension.
- A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
- Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.
- The direct, explicit meaning or reference of a word or term
- The most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
- An act or example of exposing.
- The first section of certain musical forms, which introduces the main theme or themes, as in a sonata, or all the voices, as in a fugue
- A setting forth of meaning or intent.
- A mutual defining of terms, declaration of motives, etc. to clear up a misunderstanding or settle a dispute
- The act or process of explaining:
- The interpretation, meaning, or sense given in explaining
- The science, study, or practice of exegesis
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