Conceptual Spaces as a Basis for Cognitive Semantics
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As an introduction, I want to contrast two general traditions in semantics, one realistic and one cognitive. According to the realistic approach to semantics the meaning of an expression is something out there in the world. In technical terms, a semantics for a language is defined as a mapping from the syntactic structures to things in the world (or in several possible worlds). Often meanings are defined in terms of truth conditions. A consequence of this approach is that the meaning of an expression is independent of how individual users understand it.
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