I’m a PhD student in the research project “Cognitive Transparency of semantic contents, pragmatic determination of reference“:
https://refer20162020.wordpress.com/
I’m working on the question of the ontology of word meaning. I try to reconcile a radical usage-based view of word meaning (meaning eliminativism) with externalistic and normative insights about word meaning (semantic deference). My aim is to do this by fleshing out a distinction between two complementary notions of word meaning: lexical meaning and conventional meaning.
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