In this article, I chart a trajectory from deconstruction to embodiment in the intellectual history of Buddhist traditions in Tibet. I focus on embodiment as a participatory approach to radically deconstructed and unthematized meaning, in contrast to an interpretation of truth as purely an analytic category or an approach to meaning that deals with values, such as emptiness, as simply truth cla...

By using ontologies we allow agents to put meaning behind the terms used during interaction. So we propose an entity named focus that could represent various kinds of information contents : documents, data bases, services, agents’ capabilities, etc. It consists of a weighting of the concepts of an ontology in order to indicate which meaning are important for the agent which has set it up. To he...

Legal argumentation often centers on the interpretation and understanding of terminology. Statutory texts are known for a frequent use of vague terms that are difficult to understand. Arguments about the meaning of statutory terms are an inseparable part of applying statutory law to a specific factual context. In this work we investigate the possibility of supporting this type of argumentation ...

Negation is present in all human languages and it is used to reverse the polarity of part of statements that are otherwise affirmative by default. A negated statement often carries positive implicit meaning, but to pinpoint the positive part from the negative part is rather difficult. This paper aims at thoroughly representing the semantics of negation by revealing implicit positive meaning. Th...

An utterance conveys meaning not just through the words that are uttered (and the way these words combine to form larger expressions), but also through its prosody, i.e. its rhythm and tune. The contribution of prosody to the truth-conditional meaning of an utterance as well as to its informationstructural meaning, i.e. the way in which the utterance is used in discourse, is determined at the i...

This paper defends the use-based metasemantic project against problem of meaning without use, which allegedly shows predictions accounts to be indeterminate with respect unusably long or complex expressions. criticism is commonly taken decisive, prompting various retreats and contributing project’s eventual decline. Using conventionalism as a case study, I argue following: either such expressio...