Toward a Grammar of Meaning

Abstract

THE concept of is as dismayingly complex as any concept which suffers attentions of philosophy. So diverse and apparently miscellaneous are senses, uses, and meanings of words mean and that very integrity of the concept of meaning is subject to doubt. Yet we will surely not understand concept of meaning, or any concept, until we understand how its parts hang together, as it were, to extent that they do; until we have an analysis of concept which reflects such univocity as concept possesses. The provision of such an account would seem to depend in part on our discovering and describing relationships between various uses and senses and grammatically diverse occurrences of words which, as one says, express concept in question. The statement of whatever syntactical, including transformational, relations may exist between sentences involving these words, and placing of this description within context of analyses of kindred expressions and ultimately within broader context of a theory of entire language, seems likely to prove essential to this undertaking.

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