Meaning of psychosemantics | Babel Free

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The study of how meaning is inferred.

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“Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955). Russian psychosemantics is based on the methodological and theoretical foundations introduced by Lev Vygotsky, Alexei Leontiev, and Alexander Luria.”

“The solution is proposed that we have⟳ some inner concepts; that is the semantically endowed inner concepts of psychosemantics.”

“Psychosemantics is the theory of what it is in virtue of which our thoughts refer⟳ to (parts of) the world; if traditional, linguistic semantics is the theory of word-world relations, the psychosemantics is intended to be the analogous theory of thought-world relations. Although the topic of psychosemantics might, at first blush, seem to be remote from the present⟳ concerns about color ontology, it has sometimes been alleged that the argument from perceptual variation that we have⟳ been considering depends in a certain way on psychosemantic matters -- or, at least, on the unsatisfactory status of extant psychsemantic theorizing.”

“Psychosemantics argues from the practical indispensability of folk psychology to the need⟳ to be "realist" about mental representations.”

“So I am not going to rehearse my alternative and the reasons for it, but rather explore⟳ and criticize the sources of the psychosemantics of thinking.”

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