Literary notes about semantics (AI summary)
The term semantics appears in literature with a wide range of meanings and functions. In some contexts, it refers to the academic study of meaning—with works discussing non-Aristotelian systems and the science of language sense [1][2][3]—demonstrating its role in scholarly debates about language and logic [4][5]. In other instances, it features in everyday dialogue or narrative exchanges, where disputes over intent or wordplay become a subtle battleground for differing interpretations [6][7][8]. Authors also use semantics as a lens through which to inspect the relationship between language and reality, often suggesting that mistaken understandings or even humor can derive from these very subtleties [9][10].
- Science and sanity: an introduction to non-aristotelian systems and general semantics.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1969 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office - An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (1933).
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin - Semantics requires that one "abstract from the user of the language and analyze only the expressions and their designata" (Vol. 1., p.115).
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin - There is too the study of semantics—the science of meanings as distinguished from phonetics, the science of sound.
— from Why we should read-- by S. P. B. (Stuart Petre Brodie) Mais - " Henry knew he had to make a desperate attempt to trip up the witness in semantics.
— from Wild Justice by Ruth M. Sprague - If they feel justified in eliminating Gresham on the strength of that phone call, I'm satisfied, regardless of the semantics involved.
— from Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper - That was a matter of semantics in my opinion.
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission - "That is largely a question of semantics," Raoul protested.
— from The Ignoble Savages by Evelyn E. Smith - Do you know anything about something called General Semantics?" he asked suddenly.
— from Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper - Written language encodes, at many levels (alphabet, sentence structure, semantics, etc.), the nature of the relation among those addressed in writing.
— from The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin