Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inferentialism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-fer-en-tial-ism
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"This crude inferentialism about recognition, of course, is not often explicitly defended: it is extremely implausible—just on plain phenomenological grounds—that recognition must be a matter of discursive reasoning."

Etymology

From inferential + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: inferential

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does inferentialism mean?: Inferential role semantics: an approach to the theory of meaning that identifies the meaning of an expression with its (typically inferential) relationship to other expressions.
Where does inferentialism come from?: From inferential + -ism.

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