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In what follows I will not discuss every sort of empirical semantics, but a kind or trend that has been given the proper name Empirical Semantics and has mainly flourished in Scandinavia. Its characteristics are most easily grasped by contrasting it with other trends.
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Naess, A. (1980). The Empirical Semantics of Key Terms, Phrases and Sentences. In: Kanger, S., Ōhman, S. (eds) Philosophy and Grammar. Synthese Library, vol 143. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9012-8_9
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