Complex meaning and broad reasoning
Some insights on Philosophy of Language
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Semi-formal logic, Semantics, Inference, MetatheoryAbstract
This paper aims to conceptually corroborate the metatheoretical notions of complex meaning and broad reasoning from linguistic-philosophical optics. In this sense, the text is organized from four sections, as it follows: a) introductory section, characterizing the starting point for the development of the research problem addressed; b) presentation of characteristic foundations of complex meaning, seeking to locate its instantiation in distinct linguistic theories, directly or indirectly related to linguistic meaning; c) characterization of disciplinary aspects typically involved with broad reasoning, circumscribing it to the area of linguistic science through models and methods; and d) concluding section, situating the concepts
of complex meaning and broad reasoning from a multiform and heteromorphic approach in accordance with the proposed Metatheory of Interfaces, section strongly marked by an epistemological analysis of linguistic theory.
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