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.
Semantics is the study of meaning. A word or phrase or a sentence may have literal meaning for ordinary readers. However, through semantics analysis, they appear to have different meanings. For example: A man with telescope is watching us this sentences in semantics is ambigious.