Sandman
In article <p7mmt9hi48iq5mh2cie1mcrmnk8ooramnp@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens wrote:

Eric Stevens
You think semantics is about word meanings. Well, it isn't. Look it up.

Right. It's all of that. That's why I say it is not just a matter of word meanings.

Sandman
Quite the opposite. You said, still quoted above, that it *ISN'T* about word meanings, totally excluding the concept of word meanings from the definition of semantics.

Will you admit to your error? Probably not.

Eric Stevens
It's about word meanings the same way that electronics is about Kirchhoff's law. You can't have semantics without word meanings and you can't have electronics without Kirchhoff's law. But that doesn't mean that semantics is about word meanings or electronics is about Kirchhoff's law.

Sandman
1. "You think semantics is about word meanings. Well, it isn't" 2. "You can't have semantics without word meanings"

You're hilarious.

Oxford: semantics pl.noun the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/semantics?s=t "Linguistics - the study of meaning."

World English Dictionary: "1. the branch of linguistics that deals with the study of meaning"

Word Origin & History: "science of meaning in language"

Medical Dictionary: "The study or science of meaning in language forms."

Cultural Dictionary: "The scientific or philosophical study of the relations of words and their meanings."

And I repeat:

"You think semantics is about word meanings. Well, it isn't" - Eric Stevens