Antisemantic

Quick meaning: Antisemantic is an adjective meaning Based on form or structure rather than meaning.

Meaning

Based on form or structure rather than meaning.

More Meanings

1. Devoid of meaning.
2. Hostile to meaning and clear communication; tending to conceal or undermine sense.
3. Misconstruction of antisemitic.

Example Sentences

Clearly, if the conjunction of realism and antisemantic-realism had the consequence that truth is an accident, that would be a serious problem.

The antisemantic arguments tap into deeply held intuitions that computers are just not the sorts of things one can correctly view as cognitive agents, as persons.

The event is repressed at the level of direct expression and can only make itself felt again in what Abraham and Torok call the “antisemantic” features of language.

The most striking feature of the distributionalist approach to language is, however, its antisemantic bias, typical especially of Harris but going back to scholars like B. Bloch, G. L. Trager, and ultimately L. Bloomfield.

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