Semantic revolution

Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel, Alfred Tarski

Jan Woleński

pp. 1-15

in: Jan Woleński, Eckehart Köhler (eds), Alfred Tarski and the Vienna circle, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

As used by C. S. Peirce, “semantic” is the study of the modes of denotation of signs: whether a sign denotes its object through causal or symptomatic connection, or through imagery, or through arbitrary convention and so on. This sense of semantic, namely a theory of meaning, is used also in empirical philology: empirical semantic is the study of historical changes of meanings of words.1

Cited authors

Carnap Rudolf

Peirce Charles Sanders

Gödel Kurt

Tarski Alfred