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Semantics
1. Semantic Field : A cluster of words that cover a particular semantic area and can best be understood in relation to one another.

2. Background
Linguistics have contributed primarily to the study of the core meaning or sense of individual words.
-Lexical Decomposition : This method represents the sense of a word(Semantic feature)
ex)
manwomanboyadult++-male+-+
Philosophers have contributed primarily to the study of the meaning of sentence
It can be divided two elements : the study of reference and the study of truth conditions.
So far we have considered semantics from the point of view of the contributors to the theory: Linguistics, who have studied meaning through lexical decomposition, and philosophers who studied meaning through reference and truth conditions. If we abstract away from the material we`ve been discussing, we can divide the study of semantics into three areas: sense, reference. truth