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DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS
- The meaning of a word is provided by a communite of native speakers not by a dictionary
- Usually dictionary`s definitions tends to represent the word`s meaning that does individual speaker`s understanding of the worl.
- One of the problems of use definitions, is that the person who is usin it, know the meanings of the words udes in that definition.
- Dictionaries are written to be a tool for people that known and use the language, not to make theoretical claims about the nature of the meaning.
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MENTAL IMAGES
- Is an attractive idea because words often do seem to conjure up particular mental image.
- Many words have not clear a mental image attached them. for instance word FORGET.
- The image associated with a word tend to be a typical or ideal examplo of the kind of things the word represented.
- Peoples`s mental image can be very different from each other.
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MEANING AND REFERENCE
- Language is used to talk about things in the outside world, any many worlds can be referent to actual objects o relations in the world.
- The meaning of a word involves more than one references.
- Not all expressions have a real word references.
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MEANING, TRUE CONDITIONS,AND TRUE VALUE
- To knowing the meaning of a sentence is necesary knowing the conditions under which it would be true.
- Meaning involves a relationship between language and the world.
- To explain the meaning of a sentence is aldo done by explaining truth conditions
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POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
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- We can define the meaning of a sentence, collecting of those possible scenarios in which the statement is true.
- Other forms of describe meanings in terms of " possible situations" or "possibler scenarios"
- The theory of references helps us to give referent to imaginary items and individuals, for instance;the word unicorn or centaur
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MEANING AND LANGUAGE USE
- To know the meaning of a sentence involves knowing how to use it, and the conditions on language use.
- Also the conditions under which a sentence is true, meaning is probably determined in part by the conditions under sentence can be used.
- Conditions on language use form an important to know meaning.