Chapter 01

Pragmatic Semiotics Model

This chapter develops the Pragmatic Semiotics Model (PSM): a formal account of language as a synchronization protocol between minds rather than a transmission medium for propositions. We show that the transmission metaphor generates systematic philosophical errors, and that replacing it with a synchronization model resolves classical puzzles about translation, metaphor, and context-dependence.

Language as a protocol for sharing mental states, not externalizing thought