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(1979) Semiotics in Poland 1984–1969, Dordrecht, Springer.
Much has been written on what "to mean" means. In taking up this issue within a limited sphere I will discuss it first — in order not to complicate my analysis — only with reference to the meanings of names of things, in particular of well-defined general names, or of terms, such as scientific and technical terms in the broad sense of the word: 'square", "house", "tree", etc. All approaches to the problem under consideration reflect three trends: (1) the psychological trend, according to which meaning is the content of thoughts about the designatum of a given name; (2) the behaviourist trend, which assumes that meaning is a disposition to a certain behaviour with respect to that designatum; (3) the semantic trend, which defines meaning in terms of the properties of the designatum. All three trends go beyond the sphere of logic.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9777-6_11
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Czeżowski, T. (1979)., Connotation and denotation, in J. Pelc (ed.), Semiotics in Poland 1984–1969, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 73-80.
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