semantic

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For many years, episodic and semantic memory have been treated as separate systems, leading researchers to investigate them independently.

From Science Daily • Feb. 3, 2026

This is much more than a semantic debate between ETFs about what quality means.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025

A semantic memory can be recalled as though it were episodic and vice versa, in degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Dehn and others have characterized that reading of the code as semantic and divorced from its legal context.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025

And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker