http://jarda.peregrin.cz Jarda Peregrin Home Page en-en http://backend.userland.com/rss PHP/5.2.11 http://jarda.peregrin.cz/jaico.jpg http://jarda.peregrin.cz https://youtu.be/mDnnob1kyLs?si=qwFhXln7okkj6TiV http://jarda.peregrin.cz/mybibl/PDFTxt/718.pdf http://jarda.peregrin.cz/mybibl/PDFTxt/protected/727.pdf http://jarda.peregrin.cz/mybibl/PDFTxt/728.pdf Any comprehensive account of natural language must involve an answer to the question What is meaning? Fifty years ago, a radical attempt to answer such question, and to provide not only as comprehensively as possible, but also an explicitly as possible, was made by the founding fathers of what has become known later as formal (or model-theoretical) semantics (Montague, D. Lewis, Cresswell, ?). They basically followed Frege in situating meanings in the "third realm", different from the realm of physical, spatio-temporal things and also from the realm of mental contents. They, however, made use of the fact that since Frege's time the realm has been thoroughly researched and mostly colonized by set theory. Therefore, formal semanticists took meaning to be a set. This approach to semantics yielded a vast number of interesting results both concerning the logico-philosophical nature of meaning and concerning particular meanings of various natural language expressions. Yet I think that the general contribution of formal semantics to our understanding of meaning still waits for a thorough evaluation. And this is something I would like to undertake in this book. As the heyday of formal semantics is long over now, we can consider it with the benefit of hindsight; and I think that with such a detachment we can see things which are not so clearly seen before. https://youtu.be/_7Q58eAc4oc?si=fFN-FvJq-fYruEH2 http://jarda.peregrin.cz/mybibl/PDFTxt/640.pdf https://denikn.cz/1539432/nasi-bratranci-s-chapadly-chobotnice-v-dobach-kyberpunku/?ref=list