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We can get some idea of how chal- lenging by adopting a simple but intuitively attractive theory of semantics which we can call the definitions theory. This theory would simply state that to give the meaning of linguistic expressions we should establish defini- tions of the meanings of words

. As soon as we begin our task of attaching definitions to words, we will be faced with a number of challenges. Since this definition is also in words, we have to give the meaning, for ex- ample, of tame. If the definitions of word meaning are given in
words, the process might never end.

If we ask where the meanings of words exist, the answer must be: in the minds of native speakers of the language. Thus meaning is a kind of knowledge. This raises several questions, for example: is there a difference between this kind of knowledge and other kinds of knowledge that people have? In particular: can we make a distinction be- tween linguistic knowledge and encyclo- paedic knowledge ? For example, if I believe that a whale is a fish and you believe that it is a mammal, do our words have different meanings when we both use the noun whale? Presumably you still understand me when I say I dreamt that I was swallowed by a whale.

There is another aspect to this problem: what should we do if we find that speakers of a language differ in their understanding of what a word means? Whose knowledge should we pick as our ‘meaning’? We might avoid the decision by picking just one speaker and limiting our semantic description to an idiolect, the technical term for an individual’s language

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