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Meaning, Thought and Reality

Allows borderline uncertainty. Borders between concepts are fuzzy

A referential theory of meaning is incomplete

- Suggests there are words without meaning

- Leaves out linguistic expressions with unreal referents

- There is not always a oen to one correspondance between words and referents

Overall

Linguists have been left with three choices

Leave these issues to philosophers and psychologists, focusing on sense within languages.

Decide meaning relies on conceptual structures and chase after the nature of linguistic concepts

Decide meaning is denoting and referring and develop a theory of meaning that includes imagined situations