Truth and words:
To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need a theory of truth predication that applies both to sentences that we are using ourselves and to sentences used by others. Ebbs presents a new conception of words and shows how to use it to define a truth predicate that directly applies to all these kin...
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| Summary: | To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need a theory of truth predication that applies both to sentences that we are using ourselves and to sentences used by others. Ebbs presents a new conception of words and shows how to use it to define a truth predicate that directly applies to all these kinds of sentences. |
| Item Description: | Lit.-verz. S. [321] - 329 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 338 S. graph. Darst. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS INTRODUETION 1 I. REGIMENTATION 14 1.1. REGIMENTATION AS
LINGUISTIE POLIEY 14 1.2. AMBIGUITY 17 1.3 IS REGIMENTATION POSSIBLE?
20 1.4 VAGUENESS 22 1.5 QUANTIFIER DOMAINS, TENSE, AND TIME 25 1.6.
DESERIPTIONS AND PROPER NAMES 27 1.7 PRONOUNS AND DEMONSTRATIVES 30
1.8. WHY ORDINARY LANGUAGE IS INDISPENSABLE 32 1.9 LIMITATIONS OF
FIRST-ORDER LOGIC 33 2. THE TARSKI-QUINE THESIS 40 2.1. THE
INDISPENSABILITY ARGUMENT 40 2.2. WHY GENERALIZE ON VALID SENTENCES? 48
23 THREE ATTEMPTS TO GENERALIZE ON SENTENCES WITHOUT USING A TRUTH
PREDICATE 52 24 HORWICH S MINIMAL THEORY 58 25 A NAIVE THEORY OFWHY
IT IS EPISTEMICALLY REASONABLE FOR US TO ACCEPT T -SENTENCES 63 2.6.
SURROGATE T -SENTENCES AND EXPLICATION 65 27 TARSKI S CONVENTION T 67
2.8. TRUE-IN-L DEFINED IN TERMS OFSATISFAETION 70 29 HOW (TR)
SATISFIESCONVENTION T AND ENABLES US TO DERIVE ST-SENTENCES 72 2.10.
SCHEMATIC DEFINITIONS OF TRUE-IN-L REJECTED 74 2.1 I. ADOPTING THE
TARSKI-QUINE THESIS 78 2.12. TWO OBJECTIONS 79 XLI CONTENTS 3 THE
INTERSUBJECTIVITY CONSTRAINT 82 3L. A PRELIMINARY FORMULATION OF THE
INTERSUBJEETIVITY CONSTRAINT 82 3.2. PRAETIEAL IDENTIFIEATIONS OFWORDS
(PIWS) 84 33 PRAETIEAL JUDGEMENTS OF SAMENESS OF SATISFAETION (PJSSS)
87 34 AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT 90 35 LEARNING FROM OTHERS 93 36.
DISEOVERIES 94 37 A REFORMULATION OF THE INTERSUBJEETIVITY CONSTRAINT
95 3.8. TRUST WITHOUT TRUSTWORTHINESS? 97 39 A QUINEAN OBJEETION:
PJSSS ARE NOT FAETUAL 98 3.IO. REALISM AS INTEGRAL TO THE SEMANTIES OF
THE PREDIEATE TRUE I02 4 HOW TO THINK ABOUT W ORDS 105 4L. IS THE
TARSKI-QUINE THESIS INEOMPATIBLE WITH THE INTERSUBJEETIVITY CONSTRAINT?
105 4.2. USE VERSUS MENTION (TRANSPARENT USE) I06 43 THE ORTHOGRAPHIE
CONEEPTION OFWORDS I07 44 EXPLANATORY USE (EX-USE) I08 45 THE
TOKEN-AND-EX-USE MODEL OFWORDS 112 46. TYPES AND TOKENS 114 47
KAPLAN S COMMON CURRENEY CONEEPTION OFWORDS 120 48. THE CONTEXT
PRINEIPLE AND THE PJSS-BASED CONEEPTION OF WORDS 127 49 HOW TO SATISFY
THE INTERSUBJEETIVITY CONSTRAINT WITHOUT REJEETING THE TARSKI-QUINE
THESIS 133 4.IO. PRELIMINARY OBJEETIONS AND REPLIES 140 5 LEARNING FROM
OTHERS, INTERPRETATION, AND CHARITY 144 5L. IS THE INTERSUBJEETIVITY
CONSTRAINT COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEGATION OF THE TARSKI-QUINE THESIS? 144
52. LANGUAGE EX-USE AND INTERPRETATION 145 53 A CASE IN WHIEH ONE
PERSON LEARNS FROM ANOTHER 148 54 TWO CONDITIONALS 151 CONTENTS XL11
55 STRATEGY 153 5.6. WHAT IS DAVIDSON S PRINCIPLE OFCHARITY? 154 5.7.
DAVIDSON S FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING (3) AND (4) 158 5.8. WHY THE
CONJUNCTION OF (3) AND (4) VIOLATES DAVIDSON S PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY 16O
5.9. MY CONCLUSION DRAWN, GENERALIZED, AND EXPLAINED 165 5. 10. IS THE
PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY OPTIONAL? 169 5.11. AN ALTERNATIVE TO DAVIDSON S
PRINCIPLE OFCHARITY 171 5.12. FRONTIERS OFTRANSLATION 174 5. I 3. THE
METHOD BEHIND THESE CONCLUSIONS 177 6. A PUZZLE ABOUT SAMENESS OF
SATISFACTION ACROSS TIME 179 6.1. AN INTUITION ABOUT SAMENESS
OFSATISFACTION ACROSS TIME 179 6.2. METHODOLOGICAL ANALYTICITY 182 6.3.
CAUSAL-HISTORICAL THEORIES 186 6.4. A THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 191 6.5. THE
STANDARD CONCEPTION OFTHE OPTIONS FOR THE THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 194 6.6. A
PREVIEW OFWHY OPTIONS (I) AND (2) ARE UNACCEPTABLE 196 6.7. A DILEMMA
FOR THE CAUSAL-HISTORICAL THEORY 197 6.8. DISPOSITIONS 201 6.9.
EPISTEMIC POSSIBILITIES AND PRIMARY INTENSIONS 204 6.10. PROBLEMS WITH
PRIMARY INTENSIONS 208 6. I I. IMPLICIT CONCEPTIONS 2 I 3 7. SENSE AND
PARTIAL EXTENSION 2 I 7 71. OPTION (3) 217 7.2. DUMMETT ON SAMENESS
OFSATISFACTION ACROSS TIME 218 7.3. DUMMETT ON SENSE AND IMPLICIT
KNOWLEDGE 220 7.4. WHY DUMMETT S CONSTRAINTS RULE OUT OPTIONS (I) AND
(2) 225 7.5. DUMMETT S VERSION OFOPTION (3) 228 7.6. TWO PROBLEMS FOR
DUMMETT S VERSION OFOPTION (3) 230 7.7. FIELD ON PARTIAL EXTENSION 236
7.8. A FIELD-STYLE ARGUMENT AGAINST OPTIONS (I) AND (2) 238 7.9. A
FIELD-STYLE DEFENCE OF OPTION (3) 240 7.10. A PROBLEM FOR THE
FIELD-STYLE DEFENCE OFOPTION (J) 241 XLV CONTENTS 8. THE PUZZLE
DIAGNOSED AND DISSOLVED 247 8.1. THE PUZZLE REVIEWED 247 8.2. THE FIRST
GOLD-PLATINUM THOUGHT EXPERIMENT AND THE CONTEXT PRINCIPLE 249 83 THE
SECOND GOLD-PLATINUM THOUGHT EXPERIMENT 252 84 THE THESIS THAT THE
EXTENSION OF A PJSS-BASED WORD TYPE IS DETERMINED BY FACTS ABOUT THE
EX-USES OFSOME OF ITS TOKENS 257 85 GEORGE WILSON S RIVERDALE OLYMPICS
CASE 260 8.6. HENRY JACKMAN S TEMPORAL EXTERNALISM 264 87
COUNTERFACTUALS ABOUT THE PAST AND THE THIRD GOLD-PLATINUM THOUGHT
EXPERIMENT 269 8.8. TEMPORAL EXTERNALISM AND RELATIVE TRUTH 276 89
IMMANENT REALISM 286 9 APPLICATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES 288 91.
INTRODUCTION 288 92. A DEFLATIONARY ALTERNATIVE TO THE CAUSAL THEORY OF
REFERENCE: PREDICATES 289 93 A DEFLATIONARY ALTERNATIVE TO THE CAUSAL
THEORY OF REFERENCE: PROPER NAMES 291 94 WHAT IS MINIMAL
SE1F-KNOWLEDGE? 294 95 MINIMAL SE1F-KNOWLEDGE AS SECOND ORDER 295 9.6.
BASIC SE1F-KNOWLEDGE AND CONTAINMENT 297 97 MINIMAL SE1F-KNOWLEDGE AS
FIRST ORDER 303 9.8. MINIMAL SE1F-KNOWLEDGE AS PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE 306
9.9. THE DIVISION OFEPISTEMIC LABOUR 308 9.10. JUDGING MINIMAL
LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE ACROSS TIME 311 9.11. ANTI-INDIVIDUALISM,
EXTERNALISM, AND LINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES 313 9.12. TRUTH AND LOGIC 316
RIFERENCES ]20 INDEX 331
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