Semnificație și înțelegere
Meaning and Understanding

Summary/Abstract: The receiver of a message can grasp the emitent’s intention only under the hypothesis that the language is a system of signs. Regarding to the meaning of signs there are several points of view: some authors hold that the meaning is a concept while others identify the meaning of a sign with an object. Also, the contextualists claim that the meaning can be either a concept or an object according to the context and the synthetic theory assumes that meaning is the unity between concept and object. On the other hand, the realists accept that the meaning is the same with the understanding and nominalists consider that meaning is only a form of understanding. The problem of understanding can be solved only if the nominalist and relativist perspectives are accepted.

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