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Sunday in the Park with Theory

The Religious Studies Project

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The Inferential Theory of Meaning

i started reading a lot of work in animal studies and of different sorts, biology, ethology, eteology, et cetera to start really thinking about that issue. What i came to was a particular theory of meaning. And we could call it an inferential theory of meaning - what a sign means is what a given sentient being infers in a given context. The unit of meaning is materialized signs, not words. Different people can get different kinds of meaning out of the same tree. For example, my wife and i disagree on exactly what counts as blue or green. We don't actually agree about as much as we think we do. I think remerxact

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