John Sowa on meaning in language and LLMs

 

An exercise for the reader: 

Background: I have argued that meaning involves intention, relationality, and adhesion, where intention inheres in the relationship between the parties to a linguistic act and relationality and adhesion together make up semanticity, which inheres in the language system itself. Relationality exists in the relationships of words among themselves and is the basis of inferential semantics, as it's called in the literature. Adhesion exists in the relationship between a word and the situation in the world designated by the word.

The exercise: Sowa gives a number of examples between 02:29 and 13:10. Examine those various examples and assess the roles of intention, relationality, and adhesion in each.