naturalized semantics - The project of explaining semantic notions, such as 'means', 'refers', 'denotes', in terms of non-semantic notions, such as correlation, causation, resemblance, structural isomorphism, or teleological function. Some leading efforts in this area include Dretske, 1988, Fodor, 1990, and Millikan, 1984.

Ken Aizawa

References

Dretske, F. (1988). Explaining Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Fodor, J. (1990). 'A theory of content', II. In Fodor, A theory of content and other essays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Millikan, R. G. (1984). Language, thought and other biological categories. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

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