Inferential role semantics
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Inferential role semantics (also conceptual role semantics, functional role semantics, procedural semantics, semantic inferentialism) is an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its relationship to other expressions (typically its inferential relations with other expressions), in contradistinction to denotationalism, according to which denotations are the primary sort of meaning.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is considered an early proponent of what is now called inferentialism.
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