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ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
Year : 2023, Volume : 13, Issue : 1
First page : ( 7) Last page : ( 14)
Online ISSN : 2249-7137.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2249-7137.2023.00004.6

Behavioural constructivist approach to the semantics of the individual in propositional analyses

Akpan Etorobong Godwin1, Njobuawu Omah Moses2

1Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, University of Port HarcourtPort Harcourt, Nigeria, Email id: etorobong.akpan@gmail.com

2PhD Scholar, Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, University of Port HarcourtPort Harcourt, Nigeria

Online published on 13 March, 2023.

Abstract

The paper is concerned with an approach to the semantics of the individual within propositional expression. The objective of the paper is to propose behavioural constructivism as an analytic approach to the semantics of constative sentences. The primary focus of the essay is to present the semantics of the individual referent in a proposition. The method adopted to achieve this objective is content analysis. The analysis has shown that the individual described in any given proposition is neither its subject nor its predicate but a relation, which is a construct of the cognitive agent and expressed in a proposition. So, the central issue in the semantics of a proposition is its expression of a relation constructed upon experience, not the description of the subject's state. A proposition is a report of the existence of such a construct.

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Keywords

Constructivism, Behavioural, Proposition, Individual, Subject, Predicate.

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