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<p>from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>A '''meaning postulate''' is a device used in [[logical semantics]] to stipulate semantic relations between lexical items. Meaning postulates were introduced in Carnap (1947) in order to account for the fact that a sentence like (i) is an [[analytic truth]], true in every [[model]]. The meaning postulate in (ii) captures this analyticity:<br /> <br /> *(i) Bachelors are unmarried<br /> *(ii) For all x, if x is a bachelor, then x is unmarried<br /> <br /> Meaning postulates can be seen as an alternative for [[decomposition]] of word meaning (see [[componential analysis]]). They are extensively used in [[Montague Grammar]].<br /> <br /> ===Link===<br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/Uil-OTS/Lexicon/ Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> ===Reference===<br /> *Carnap 1947<br /> *Gamut, L.T.F. (1991) Logic, language, and meaning, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.<br /> <br /> ===Other languages===<br /> German [[Bedeutungspostulat]]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Semantics]]</div>

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