Semantic holograms: a metatheoretical proposal toward the evaluation of complex meaning within natural language

• Autor(a) principal: Penz, Yuri Fernando da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: letrônica
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/32481
• topic: Modality. Semantic holography. Metatheory of Interfaces. Logic and natural language.; Modalidade. Holografia semântica. Metateoria das Interfaces. Lógica e linguagem natural.

This paper proposes to evaluate the dimensions of causality as a phenomenon below and beyond the semantic instance, identifiable by means of the approximation between sentence meaning and speaker meaning, which is expressed through the relation between cause/effect feasible by modality. It is assumed that the causal phenomenon, representing both its relevance to human cognition and wider scopes of grammar, falls within the category of complex meaning, requiring the aid of the syntactic and pragmatic disciplines for the semiformal study of its nature and occurrence in the logical-linguistic sphere. Thus, this article is organized according to the following structure: a) the causal phenomenon and its expression within natural language via modality regarding its respective implications for i) everyday communication, ii) scientific language and iii) the ontology of Mind’s, Logic’s, Language’s, Linguistics’ and Science’s Philosophy; b) the constitution of semantic holography by means of a metatheoretical proposal sustained by an interface between logic and natural language; and c) the analysis of complex meaning of causality via modality on the interface between i) syntax and semantics and ii) semantics and pragmatics as symmetrical holograms.