Meaning Relations among Predicates

The point of departure of this paper is a traditional distinction between two kinds of meaning relations, which we shall call relations of content and relations of intent. The subject of relations of intent has so far remained relatively unexplored. We intend to argue briefly that this subject fonns a legitimate and in all likelihood fruitful field of semantic inquiry, to explore the means whereby relations of intent may be formally represented, and to describe and investigate a class of artificial languages (semiinterpreted languages) in which statements concerning relations of intent may be formulated.