Emergence of Public Meaning from a Teleosemantic and Game Theoretical Perspective

Karim Baraghith
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Abstract The generalized theory of evolution suggests that evolutionary algorithms apply to biological and cultural processes like language alike. Variation, selection and reproduction constitute abstract and formal traits of complex, open and often self-regulating systems. Accepting this basic assumption provides us with a powerful background methodology for this investigation: explaining the emergence and proliferation of semantic patterns, that become conventional. A teleosemantic theory of public (conventional) meaning (Millikan 1984; 2005) grounded in a generalized theory of evolution explains the proliferation of public language forms in terms of their adaptive proper function. It has also been suggested, that the emergence of meaning, can be formalized with game-theoretical tools (Skyrms 2010) within signaling systems of coordination. I want to show how closely related these approaches are, both in terms of explanandum and of outcomes. To put it in a nutshell: If the emergence of public meaning can be satisfyingly explained in terms of signaling games, then the cultural evolutionary dynamics will serve as an adequate model to describe their proliferation. Public or conventional meaning (in contrast to personal meaning) can be fully understood in terms of its evolutionary function in a population of communicators. Furthermore, I want to argue how this understanding of conventional meaning could lead us to a strong semantic holism
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从目的论和博弈论的角度看公共意义的产生
广义进化论认为,进化算法同样适用于生物和文化过程,比如语言。变异、选择和繁殖构成了复杂、开放和经常自我调节的系统的抽象和形式特征。接受这一基本假设为我们的研究提供了一个强大的背景方法:解释语义模式的出现和扩散,这些模式已经成为惯例。公共(传统)意义的目的论(Millikan 1984;2005)以广义进化理论为基础,从公共语言形式的适应性适当功能方面解释了公共语言形式的增殖。也有人认为,意义的出现可以用协调信号系统中的博弈论工具(Skyrms 2010)来形式化。我想展示这些方法是如何紧密相关的,无论是在解释和结果方面。简而言之:如果公共意义的出现可以通过信号游戏得到令人满意的解释,那么文化进化动态将成为描述其扩散的适当模型。公共意义或传统意义(与个人意义相反)在交际人群中的进化功能方面可以得到充分理解。此外,我想论证这种对传统意义的理解如何能使我们得出一个强有力的语义整体论
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