Theories of Meaning with Realism, Emphasizing Allameh Tabatabaei Theory of Meaning

This article comments on some of the most important theories of meaning about words in The West. And also we will discuss about relation between this theories and Semantic realism of meaning.These theories are:A) The descriptive theory of meaningB) The referential theory of meaning C) The Usage theory of meaning Then we will try to extract Tabatabaei theory of meaning from his works. ThisdebateonIslamicphilosophyhas been describedin othermanner that have arisen in the contemporaryWest’s philosophy. In this paper, Tabatabaei theory of meaning is presented by the literature of Western Philosophy, until comparing the Allameh theory with alternative theories to be possible. Since the theory of semantics and theory of epistemology from a philosopher must have consistency and coherence anddiscussionsinthese twolayersareinterdependent; Withregard tothisdoctrine, in this article, Allameh theory of meaning is extracted of his works. According to Allameh, knowledge is divided into two categories: presential knowledge (knowledge by presence) and acquired knowledge. And acquired knowledge itself is divided into two categories: the natures (Maheyyat) and conventionals (Etbariat). And concepts of conventional (Etebari) also to both the precommunity (Ma Ghabl Ejtma') and the pastcommunity (Ma Bad Ejtma')is divided.According to Allameh, For eachregion of awareness,thereisspecial theory of meaning. Inthis article, you will see thatthe Allamehtheoryofmeaning in knowledge by presenceandnature (a bunch of acquired knowledge) with thereferentialtheoryof meaninghas beenadapted. Becauseknowledgein these two areas, subjectsomehow access to the referents of these concepts. Andinthe precommunity conventional (Etebariat Ma Ghabl Ejtem') with descriptive theory of meaning and inthe postcommunity conventional (Etebariat Ma Bad Ejtema') with usage theory of meaning has been adapted.