Théorie picturale du langageLa théorie picturale du langage, également connue sous le nom de théorie picturale du sens, est une théorie de la référence et du sens en linguistique, énoncée par Ludwig Wittgenstein dans son Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Il y est suggéré qu'une proposition signifiante décrit un état de choses ou un fait atomique. Wittgenstein compare le concept d'images logiques (en Bilder) avec des images dans l'espace. La théorie picturale du langage est considérée comme l'une des théories de la vérité-correspondance.
MetasemanticsIn the philosophy of language and metaphysics, metasemantics is the study of the foundations of natural language semantics (the philosophical study of meaning). Metasemantics searches for "the proper understanding of compositionality, the object of truth-conditional analysis, metaphysics of reference, as well as, and most importantly, the scope of semantic theory itself" and asks "how it is that expressions become endowed with their semantic significance".
ReferenceA reference is a relationship between objects in which one object designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to refer to the second object. It is called a name for the second object. The next object, the one to which the first object refers, is called the referent of the first object. A name is usually a phrase or expression, or some other symbolic representation. Its referent may be anything – a material object, a person, an event, an activity, or an abstract concept.
