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===The Meaning of Meaning===
[[File:Semiotic Triangle.png|thumb|right|alt=An equilateral triangle is labelled with Symbol to the left, Object to the right, and Thought or Reference to the top apex. The base line is dotted to signify the implied relationship between the Symbol and Object is only achieved through the Thought or Reference of the interpreter.|The Semiotic Triangle of Reference, figure taken from page 11 of The Meaning of Meaning.]]
British linguists C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, published The Meaning of Meaning in 1923, draws on Peirce's Semiotics,
draws on Peirce's Semiotics, illustrating the functioning of speech as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_reference#/media/File:Ogden_semiotic_triangle.png triangle],
whereby a Symbol has an implies the referent Object, but only through the process of thinking.
 
The Symbol has a 1:1 relationship with the thoughts, but those Thoughts or Reference may refer to one or more objects.
This is an illustrates the difference between an arithmetical function, which has one return value, and that of a programming language which, due to its conditional processing quality, may have one of several replies.
This is, in essence, an illustration of a function, later defined by Alonzo Church in his Lambda Calculus and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del Kurt Gödel] in his recursive functions.
Their idea of utterances, not words, conveying meaning was quite revolutionary, and prefigures Grice's Implicature.
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===Speech Act Theory===
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