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Department of Philosophy Colloquium: "Is Meaning A Relation?"

Mon, Nov 3, 2025 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm

The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series presents:

"Is Meaning A Relation?"

Speaker: David Balcarras (Department of Philosophy)
Monday, Nov. 3 | 12:30 - 2 p.m.
University Hall B716

Abstract: Words are meaningful. They have meanings. Or at least we talk as if they do. We talk as if meaning is a relation between words and the things they mean. We talk about what a word expresses, refers to, denotes, connotes, signifies, stands for, or means, about what it is semantically related to. But I will argue that talk of semantic relations and semantic relata ('meanings') is systematically misleading. Fundamentally, meaningfulness does not consist in words standing in semantic relations to meanings, but is rather something we do with words.

Room or Area: 
716
UH - University Hall
Colloquium
Free
Lecture
Philosophy
Public

Contact:

David Balcarras | david.balcarras@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2462