Scripts, frames, and other semantic objects
Salvatore Attardo · 2020
In this article I review the history of various approaches to semantics that share the premise that meaning is (to a greater or smaller extent) encoded in semantic “objects” (scripts, frames, schemata, MOPs, etc.) and their relations (semantic graph). I compare the various approaches, highlighting in particular the common, shared elements of Object-Oriented Semantics (OOS). I will then focus on some of the defining features of OOS, including, primelessness (i.e., the lack of basic, undefined or fundamental privileged objects), fractality (the fact that there exists the same level of complexity at all levels of the network), dynamicity (the fact that semantic objects are built by trial-and-error and are always subject to revision) and falsifiability.