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-In [[semantics]], [[semiotics]], [[philosophy of language]], [[metaphysics]], and [[metasemantics]], '''meaning''' "is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kinds of things they intend, express, or signify". 
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-The types of meanings vary according to the types of the thing that is being represented. Namely: 
-*There are the things in the world, which might have meaning; 
-*There are things in the world that are also signs of other things in the world, and so, are always meaningful (i.e., natural signs of the physical world and ideas within the mind); 
-*There are things that are necessarily meaningful such as words and nonverbal symbols. 
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-The major contemporary positions of meaning come under the following partial definitions of meaning: 
-*Psychological theories, involving notions of [[thought]], [[intention]], or [[understanding]]; 
-*Logical theories, involving notions such as [[intension]], cognitive content, or [[sense]], along with [[Extension (semantics)|extension]], [[Theory of reference|reference]], or denotation; 
-*Message, content, [[information]], or [[communication]]; 
-*[[Truth conditions]]; 
-*Usage, and the instructions for usage; and 
-*[[Measurement]], computation, or operation. 
 +In the [[philosophy of language]] and [[metaphysics]], '''metasemantics''' is the study of the foundations of [[natural language]] [[semantics]] (the [[philosophical]] study of [[Meaning (philosophy)|meaning]]). Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of [[compositionality]], the object of [[truth-conditional]] analysis, [[metaphysics of reference]], as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself" and asks "how it is that [[Sentence (linguistics)|expressions]] become endowed with their [[Meaning (philosophy of language)|semantic significance]]".
==See also== ==See also==
-* [[Definitions of philosophy]]+* [[Metasyntax]]
-* [[Meaning (existential)]]+* [[Metapragmatics]]
-* [[Semiotics]]+
-* [[Semeiotic]]+
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In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language semantics (the philosophical study of meaning). Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of compositionality, the object of truth-conditional analysis, metaphysics of reference, as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself" and asks "how it is that expressions become endowed with their semantic significance".

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