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Semantics, understood as a formal theory of the relationships between languages and their models, must involve some means of describing these domains: some notion of a language, and some notion of a model. To the extent that the account provides an accurate construal of both notions, to that extent it properly qualifies as “semantics”. And to the extent that it does not depend on specific constraints upon either notion, to that extent the account is “universal”, i.e., philosophically neutral and widely applicable.
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Varzi, A.C. (1999). Introduction. In: An Essay in Universal Semantics. Topoi Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9243-7_1
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