Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners does not go that route. It opens with a shot of a snowy forest, where a deer quietly noses around for food. Into the frame comes the barrel of a shotgun.
Just so, semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning are, pretty clearly, different sorts of theories. The term âtheory of meaningâ has, in the recent history of philosophy, been used to stand for both semantic theories and foundational theories of meaning.
Semantic Types of Arguments. Semantics is the study of meaning. The conclusion is the meaning of an argument, a logical consequence of its premise(s). Arguments establish their meanings (conclusions) through two methods: deductive reasoning and non-deductive reasoning.