Inferencijalistička semantika: osnovne teze i pojmovi
INFERENTIALISTIC SEMANTICS: BASIC THESIS AND CONCEPTS

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I will discuss what I consider to be the central conceptual and doctrinal matrices of the inferentialist approach to meaning. For this purpose, I will focus on the philosophical work of Robert Brandom who is considered to be the founder of inferentialistic semantics. Namely, Brandom has postulated in his works a fundamental requirement that should be in the center of every semantic theory: to make explicit what is implicit in the linguistic practices. Inferential relations, where different conceptual structures are also included, are for Brandom the starting point from which we should move to the semantic analyses. The central part of this paper relates to the explication of ideas about the inferential role of conceptual content: it is the articulation topos of semantic properties of linguistic practices. I want to show Brandom’s idea which is related to the normative explanatory idiom that should enable this explication: for that purpose, I will explain his thesis that the wide range of inferential relations of the conceptual content should be understood as a discursive relationship that manifests itself through a network on what a single conceptual content is obliging us.

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