Neil Tennant
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199251605
- eISBN:
- 9780191698057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251605.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language
This chapter shows how to find an acceptable reading of knowability-in-principle in order to avoid visiting upon oneself and one's opposition the overly restrictive consequence that only the ...
More
This chapter shows how to find an acceptable reading of knowability-in-principle in order to avoid visiting upon oneself and one's opposition the overly restrictive consequence that only the practically and feasibly knowable can feature in the anti-realist's manifestation requirement on grasp meaning. It discusses the strict finitist's concern about knowability-in-principle, recognitional capacities and compositionality, and feasible verifiability. It also analyses and concept of aspectual recognition and discusses ways of finding the right dispositional conditionals.Less
This chapter shows how to find an acceptable reading of knowability-in-principle in order to avoid visiting upon oneself and one's opposition the overly restrictive consequence that only the practically and feasibly knowable can feature in the anti-realist's manifestation requirement on grasp meaning. It discusses the strict finitist's concern about knowability-in-principle, recognitional capacities and compositionality, and feasible verifiability. It also analyses and concept of aspectual recognition and discusses ways of finding the right dispositional conditionals.