According to the dominant theory of meaning, truth-conditional
semantics, to explain the meaning of a statement is to specify the
conditions necessary and sufficient for its truth. Classical
truth-conditional semantics is coming under increasing attack,
however, from contextualists and inferentialists, who agree that
meaning is located in the mind.How to Think about Meaning develops
an even more radical mentalist semantics, which it does by shifting
the object of semantic inquiry. Whereas for classical semantics the
object of analysis is an abstract sentence or utterance such as
Grass is green, for attitudinal semantics the object of inquiry is
a propositional attitude such as Speaker so-and-so thinks grass is
green. Explicit relativization to some speaker S allows for
semantic theory then to make contact with psychology, sociology,
historical linguistics, and other empirical disciplines.
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