Psychosemantics

Quick meaning: Psychosemantics is a noun meaning The study of how meaning is inferred.

Meaning

The study of how meaning is inferred.

Example Sentences

The solution is proposed that we have some inner concepts; that is the semantically endowed inner concepts of psychosemantics.

Psychosemantics argues from the practical indispensability of folk psychology to the need to be "realist" about mental representations.

So I am not going to rehearse my alternative and the reasons for it, but rather explore and criticize the sources of the psychosemantics of thinking.

Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955). Russian psychosemantics is based on the methodological and theoretical foundations introduced by Lev Vygotsky, Alexei Leontiev, and Alexander Luria.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include psychosemiotics, semantics, semasiology, inferentialism, semantician, ethnosemantics.

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