Inferentialism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Inferentialism is a noun meaning (philosophy) Inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.
Meaning
(philosophy) Inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.
Example Sentences
This crude inferentialism about recognition, of course, is not often explicitly defended: it is extremely implausible—just on plain phenomenological grounds—that recognition must be a matter of discursive reasoning.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include psychosemantics, biosemantics, indexicalism, derivationism, semanticism, logic.
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