- Carnap
- Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was a highly influential German-American philosopher who believed that many traditional philosophical problems could be solved by carefully analyzing the language we use to talk about them. He pioneered the idea that philosophy should work closely with science and mathematics, using precise logical methods to clarify confused thinking. His work fundamentally changed how philosophers approach their discipline, making language analysis and logical rigor central to philosophical practice.
- Introduction to Semantics(the specific work being referenced)
- A book Carnap wrote later in his career where he reflected on and sometimes corrected ideas from his earlier work.
- Retrospective concession(what Carnap made in his later book about his earlier ideas)
- An admission someone makes later, looking back on their own past work, that they said something was one way when it was actually another way.
- Semantic elements(what Carnap realized his earlier 'syntax' actually contained)
- Parts of a system that have to do with meaning, rather than just the formal rules of how things are arranged.
- Terminological stipulations(how the statement characterizes Carnap's later reflections)
- Deliberate decisions someone makes to define or redefine terms in a particular way, rather than discovering that the terms were always that way.
- semantics(Distinguished from metasemantics and pragmatics in Kaplan 1989)
- The domain that concerns the facts about what meanings words or phrases have.
- syntax(Morris/Peirce semiotic framework)
- The form of expressions in general, encompassing phonology, morphology, and sentence structure