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(2013) Evolution of semantic systems, Dordrecht, Springer.
This paper discusses two classical pragmatists and their theories about the relation of semantics and pragmatics: Peirce's evolutionary pragmatism and its naturalistic reconstruction by Dewey. Two questions are addressed: how do these philosophers understand the origin and development of meaning and how might their theories contribute to an explanation of the evolution of semantic systems? Pragmatism could play a very important role in our understanding of the dynamics of meaning if it integrated theories and models of structural science. This would lead to a new version of pragmatist thought, 'structural pragmatism."
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34997-3_2
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Artmann, S. (2013)., Pragmatism and the evolution of semantic systems, in B. Küppers, U. Hahn & S. Artmann (eds.), Evolution of semantic systems, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 13-29.
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