THE SENSE THEORY OF MEANING

Origin and background

• Gottlob Frege is the first intellectual in the philosophy of language• Fredge (1892) argued that ideas cannot be meaning.• Ideas are subjective whereas meaning is Objective.• Denotation is not enough. We need sense.• Fredge said that along with referring expression and denotations

there is also another element called ‘sense’

Definition of sense

• “A way that the denotation is presented or known to the language user .” The morning star is morning star. The morning star is the evening star. ‘Sense is not same how ?????? Though represent to the same star Venus” And

• “The meaning of a sentence is its sense or its satisfaction condition”

Satisfaction conditions

The conditions of sentence give its sense through.

Satisfaction conditions

Truth conditions

Answerhood conditions

Compliance conditions

Truth conditions

• Declarative sentence. • yes or no question based condition. or• Explain the true and false condition.

• Earth is square • Cats are animals.• Dogs are not vegetables

Answerhood conditions

• Interrogartive sentences • Answer of these give the conditions

Was Ms Maliha Shah biased with some students ?Is maa’m Anila teaching semantics ?Is misbah always wearing scarf ?How did Peter Pan learn to fly?

Compliance conditions

• Imperative sentences• Comply request and order.

Please give us good marks in final term . Plz plz plz maamNever mind. Forget it please.Buzz off

Advantages and conclusion

• Influence other theories.• Unlike deotational and mentalist theory it focus mainly on Sentence

and phrase level.

Activity

• Does the word BANK have the same sense in the following sentence?

• Zaradari (dog) have a bank account in Switzerland? Which bank ???• We steered the raft to the other bank of the river ????• I banked up the furnace up with coke last night ????

loop holes

• Link intra- linguistics elements • Defining just three condition are not enough for all the type of

sentences . Conditional sentences • What are the senses of proper names? Imran khan • What about the sense of words ?? Like about , almost, probable, if,

and etc