Yes ; I thought that was what I said
You mentioned the lack of pragmatics of meaning, but not inclusion of the semantics of sentence structure. Which of course, is about meaning, but on a grammatical and word-logical level. Not quite the same as what you're after.
Much of this has historically fallen into philosophy Presumably ontology ?
Epistemology.
What do you intend by "hermeneutics." ?
I don't "intend" anything by it. What I *mean* by it is exactly the same as what has been meant by previous discussions we've had on the subject; the use of scholarly analysis to determine the historical context of an expression and thus provide an educated guess of the author's intent that incorporates their social situation and their individual traits.
These are not naive questions; I have my own theories and standpoints in this area; which I believe constitute an objectively falsifiable basis for selection of dictionary definitions.
If you do that, I imagine you'll be able to script a genuine artificial intelligence fairly quickly. -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt