[Revised entry by Jeff Speaks on July 31, 2024.
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The term “theory of meaning” has figured, in one way or another, in a great number of philosophical disputes over the last century. Unfortunately, this term has also been used to mean a great number of different things. In this entry, the focus is on two sorts of “theory of meaning”. The first sort of theory – a semantic theory – is a theory which assigns semantic contents to expressions of a language. The second sort of theory – a metasemantic theory – is a theory which states the facts in virtue…
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