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psychosemantics

psychosemantics noun: the study of how meaning is inferred.

Noun

psychosemantics (uncountable)

  1. The study of how meaning is inferred.
    • Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955). Russian psychosemantics is based on the methodological and theoretical foundations introduced by Lev...1997, Diane F. Halpern, Alexander E. Voiskounsky, States of Mind, →ISBN, page 21
    • The solution is proposed that we have some inner concepts; that is the semantically endowed inner concepts of psychosemantics.2008, Y. Gustafsson, C. Kronqvist, M. McEachrane, Emotions and Understanding: Wittgensteinian Perspectives, →ISBN, page 71

Examples of psychosemantics in a sentence

  • Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955).1997, Diane F. Halpern, Alexander E. Voiskounsky, States of Mind, →ISBN, page 21:
  • Psychosemantics argues from the practical indispensability of folk psychology to the need to be "realist" about mental representations.2013, Scott M. Christensen, Dale R. Turner, Folk Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind, →ISBN, page 403:
  • So I am not going to rehearse my alternative and the reasons for it, but rather explore and criticize the sources of the psychosemantics of thinking.2014, Radu J. Bogdan, Grounds for Cognition: How Goal-guided Behavior Shapes the Mind, →ISBN:

Origin of psychosemantics

From psycho- + semantics.

Questions about psychosemantics

What does psychosemantics mean?
Psychosemantics means the study of how meaning is inferred.
How do you use psychosemantics in a sentence?
Psychosemantics has a long history in psychology and includes concepts and techniques developed by the American psychologist Osgood (Osgood, 1971; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957( and Kelly (1955).
What part of speech is psychosemantics?
Psychosemantics is a noun.

Words near psychosemantics in the dictionary

  1. psychoscopes
  2. psychoscopic
  3. psychoscopy
  4. psychosemantic
  5. psychosemantically
  6. psychosemantics
  7. psychosemiotic
  8. psychosemiotically
  9. psychosemiotics
  10. psychosensorial
  11. psychosensory

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