The Emergence of Meaning
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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 seen as a mapping from the grammatical 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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