In the paper, original formal-logical conception of syntactic and semantic: intensional and extensional senses of expressions of any language L is outlined. Syntax and bi-level intensional and extensional semantics o...
Primarily a response to Paul Horwich's "Composition of Meanings," this paper attempts to refute his claim that compositionality--roughly, the idea that the meaning of a sentence is determined by the meanings of its...
The traditional way to filter out the implausible candidate solutions to the semantic paradoxes is to appeal to the so-called "cost/benefit analyses." Yet it is often tedious and controversial to carry out such anal...
In this paper I present some aspects of the controversy surrounding the semantics/pragmatics boundary and offer a possible solution in the form of Default Semantics. First, I present a brief introduction to Paul Grice...