Distributiivne semantika tähenduse holismi kaitseks: vastus Fodori ja Lepore'i kriitikale
| dc.contributor.advisor | Alexander Stewart Davies, juhendaja | et |
| dc.contributor.author | Kruuse, Sirel | |
| dc.contributor.other | Tartu Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste ja kunstide valdkond | et |
| dc.contributor.other | Tartu Ülikool. Filosoofia osakond | et |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-30T14:07:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-06-30T14:07:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026 | |
| dc.description | This bachelor’s thesis examines whether distributional semantics can offer a defensible response to Fodor and Lepore’s criticism of meaning holism, especially their objections to Paul Churchland’s state-space semantics. Meaning holism is the view that the meaning of an individual word or concept cannot be determined in isolation, but depends on its place within a wider system of beliefs, inferences, or linguistic relations. Fodor and Lepore argue that this view creates serious problems for meaning identity, communication, psychological laws, and compositionality. The thesis first presents the main arguments for and against meaning holism, then analyses Churchland’s attempt to replace strict meaning identity with structural similarity in a neural state-space model. Fodor and Lepore’s critique of Churchland is reconstructed through three objections: the individuation of dimensions, collateral information, and the dilemma of empiricism. The central part of the thesis argues that distributional semantic models differ from Churchland’s theory in an important way. They do not rely on individual neurocognitive state spaces, but on publicly measurable patterns in language corpora. For this reason, Fodor and Lepore’s objections to Churchland do not apply to distributional semantics in the same form. However, the thesis concludes that distributional semantics does not fully solve the classical problems of meaning holism. It can model linguistic similarity, but it does not prove the identity or sameness of speakers’ cognitive meanings or mental states. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Käesolev bakalaureusetöö uurib, mil määral suudab distributiivne semantika vastata Fodori ja Lepore’i tähenduse holismi kohta esitatud kriitikale. Töö käsitleb tähenduse holismi põhiprobleeme, Churchlandi olekuruumi semantikat ning Fodori ja Lepore’i vastuväiteid Churchlandi teooriale. Seejärel analüüsitakse distributiivset semantikat holistlike tunnusjoontega korpusepõhise tähendussarnasuse mudelina. Töös järeldatakse, et Fodori ja Lepore’i Churchlandi-vastased argumendid ei rakendu DSM-ile samal kujul, kuid DSM ei lahenda täielikult kommunikatsiooni-, kompositsionaalsuse- ega psühholoogiliste seaduste probleeme. | et |
| dc.description.uri | https://ester.ester.ee/record=b6059497 | |
| dc.identifier.other | 20.03.02 KRUuse 01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10062/122763 | |
| dc.language.iso | et | |
| dc.publisher | Tartu Ülikool | et |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Estonia | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ee/ | |
| dc.subject | filosoofia | et |
| dc.subject | philosophy | en |
| dc.subject | tähenduse holism | et |
| dc.subject | distributiivne semantika | et |
| dc.subject | olekuruumi semantika | et |
| dc.subject | semantics | en |
| dc.subject.other | bakalaureusetööd | et |
| dc.title | Distributiivne semantika tähenduse holismi kaitseks: vastus Fodori ja Lepore'i kriitikale | et |
| dc.title.alternative | Distributional Semantics in Defence of Meaning Holism: A Response to Fodor and Lepore's Criticism | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
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