semantical
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English
Etymology
Apparently from French sémantique + -al.[1]
Adjective
semantical (comparative more semantical, superlative most semantical)
- Pertaining to or resembling semantics
- 2008 March 14, Tuomas K. Pernu, “Is knowledge a natural kind?”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, :
- Others have found it too difficult to give up on semantical theory of mind and have in consequence tried to construct internalistic semantics for mental representations (Fodor 1987 ; Jacob 1997 ) (the term “narrow content” was coined for referring to exactly such internalistically individuated mental representations).
Synonyms
References
- ^ “semantical, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
