In Reply to: Blindness; Language is Slippery! posted by TheHappyBurgermeister on August 23, 2026 at 09:35:44
at times as you shift between contexts.
The article also steps a little more into how we define concepts, which is how philosophical differences can bleed into the meaning of abstract words.
I can talk quite a bit on types of meaning of words, phrases, denotation vs connotation, intensional vs extensional, quantifications, presuppositions, etc. I never took a deep dive into world of formal semantics and always used it as sparingly as possible in my work, but those were always the more fun topics when teaching a Ling 101 type course because you could see the light bulb turn on more quickly for more people in a relatively large class, which is always the best part of teaching.