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Metasemantics, I will take it, inquires into the nature of certain properties investigated by natural language semantics. It seeks a certain sort of ‘more fundamental’ characterization of these properties. It asks whether and how these semantic properties might admit of some illuminating reduction to, or unification with, nonsemantic properties. It would be good to put this more precisely. But beyond a superficial level, this kind of question can hardly be framed in abstraction from fairly specific assumptions about what sorts of things natural language semantics is in the business of explaining, and about what the best theory of those explananda looks like. One needs such assumptions to have some reasonable handle on what the ‘semantic properties’ are whose ground metasemantics asks about. Any clear statement of the problems of metasemantics is thus bound to be about as controversial as the picture of first-order semantic theory it assumes. And needless to say, there is not exactly consensus about just what picture of first-order semantic theory is the right one. Varieties of semantic theory abound; and even when theorists agree about the proper shape of a semantic theory, they may disagree about what such a theory is fundamentally directed at explaining. The science of linguistic meaning is at an early stage. Metasemantic speculation is thus hazardous, and risks being idle. Be that as it may, in this chapter, I make a preliminary attempt at framing some questions of metasemantics. I aim in particular for a characterization of the problems of metasemantics that meshes with natural language semantics in the modern, broadly model-theoretic tradition as informed
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