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semantics — semanticist /si man teuh sist/, semantician /see man tish euhn/, n. /si man tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. Ling. a. the study of meaning. b. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form. 2.… … Universalium
Semantics (album) — Infobox Album Name = Semantics Type = EP Artist = Australian Crawl Released = flagicon|Australia 1983 flagicon|US 1984 flagicon|Australia 1996 Recorded = Rhinoceros Studios (Sydney) AAV studios (Melbourne) Genre = Surf rock Length = 17:53 (EP) 44 … Wikipedia
Free variables and bound variables — In mathematics, and in other disciplines involving formal languages, including mathematical logic and computer science, a free variable is a notation that specifies places in an expression where substitution may take place. The idea is related to … Wikipedia
Denotational semantics — In computer science, denotational semantics (initially known as mathematical semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics) is an approach to formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects (called denotations)… … Wikipedia
General semantics — The term General Semantics refers to a non Aristotelian educational discipline created by Alfred Korzybski (1879–1950) during the years 1919 to 1933. General Semantics stands distinct from semantics, a different subject. The name technically… … Wikipedia
Kripke semantics — (also known as relational semantics or frame semantics, and often confused with possible world semantics) is a formal semantics for non classical logic systems created in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Saul Kripke. It was first made for modal… … Wikipedia
Cognitive semantics — is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. The main tenets of cognitive semantics are, first, that grammar is conceptualisation; second, that conceptual structure is embodied and motivated by usage; and third, that the ability to use language … Wikipedia
Formal semantics of programming languages — In theoretical computer science, formal semantics is the field concerned with the rigorous mathematical study of the meaning of programming languages and models of computation. The formal semantics of a language is given by a mathematical model… … Wikipedia
Game semantics — (German: dialogische Logik) is an approach to formal semantics that grounds the concepts of truth or validity on game theoretic concepts, such as the existence of a winning strategy for a player, somewhat resembling Socratic dialogues or medieval … Wikipedia
Truth-value semantics — In formal semantics, truth value semantics is an alternative to Tarskian semantics. It has been primarily championed by Ruth Barcan Marcus, H. Leblanc, and M. Dunn and N. Belnap. It is also called the substitution interpretation (of the… … Wikipedia