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Meaning and Interpretation. II

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The paper enriches the conceptual apparatus of the theory of meaning and denotation that was presented in Part I (Section 3). This part concentrates on the notion of interpretation, which is defined as an equivalence class of the relation possessing the same manner of interpreting types. In this part, some relations between meaning and interpretation, as well as one between denotation an interpretational denotation are established. In the theory of meaning and interpretation, the notion of language communication has been formally introduced and some conditions of correctness of communication have been formulated.

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Wybraniec-Skardowska, U. Meaning and Interpretation. II. Stud Logica 85, 261–274 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-007-9031-3

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