PPT-The Idea Theory of Meaning

Outline Metasemantics The Conformal Theory The Idea Theory Primary and Secondary Qualities General Terms Abstract Ideas The Tribunal of Experience Summary 1 metasemantics The Meaningless World. Outline. Metasemantics. The Conformal Theory. The Idea Theory. Problems for the Idea Theory. Summary. 1. metasemantics. The Meaningless World. Most things in the world don’t have meanings. Rivers and lakes and trees and rocks and planets and black holes and electrons… none of these things have meanings. . The Conformal Theory. Aristotle. Lived in Greece . 384-322 BCE. Student of Plato at the Academy. Taught Alexander the Great. Started his own school, the Lyceum. Towering figure in Western philosophy and Christianity. Use theory: history & motivation. The Causal-Historical Theory. Last time we learned about the causal-historical theory of reference. . The Causal-Historical Theory. Let’s call that baby ‘Feynman’. Wilhelm von . Humbolt. famously described language as a system that “makes infinite use of finite means.”. Infinite Noun Phrases. There are infinitely many noun phrases: you can always make another one by adding another adjective:. Use theory: history & motivation. The Causal-Historical Theory. Last time we learned about the causal-historical theory of reference. According to Kripke’s model, names and natural kind terms have their referenced initially fixed by . Review from last time. Metasemantics. Theories of Meaning. The Conformal Theory. The Idea Theory. The Resemblance Theory. Berkeley. General terms/. Abstract ideas. Locke on General Terms. “. It is not enough for the perfection of language, that sounds can be made signs of ideas, unless those signs can be so made use of as to comprehend several particular . Perspectives on the evolution of AI. David A. Ferrucci, PhD. AI Researcher, Bridgewater Associates. October 10, 2014. #GHC14. 2014. Outline. Evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI). From Theory-Driven to Data-Driven Systems. https://www.scribd.com/document/142971698/1982-Realism-Michael-Dummett. . Realism (concerning X) construed as a semantical thesis: it is a certain interpretation of a class of statements (the statements about X – the given class).. And the Origin of the Universe. 3. 3. The Big Bang—Observation or Speculation?. Scientific Process. Get an idea. Perform. experiments. Create theory. Scientific Process. Get an idea. Perform. experiments. Story #1 – Rope Burn. h. umiliation . hu. -mil-i-. ation. fringes . frin-ges. expectations ex-. pect. -a-. tions. coaxed coax-. ed. sincere sin-. cere. hesitating . hes. -i-ta-ting. Topic. A topic is a subject within a text. It is typically one word, or a short phrase . Topics are what the text is “about” . For example…. The Avengers . is about “heroes” and “friendship” . La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . Qualitative text analysis Why do qualitative text analysis? A number of scholars say you cannot capture the meaning of a text by counting the number of times violence is portrayed or the categories of jobs named in a story, etc. Alan Dennis. ardennis@indiana.edu. November, 2011. Agenda. What is Theory. What is . Interesting. Theory. Variance Theory versus Process Theory. A Process for Theory Construction. Testing and Generalizing Theory.