Maximilian de Gaynesford
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199287826
- eISBN:
- 9780191603570
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199287821.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
The inferential role of I is irreducibly deictic. The inferential roles of singular terms are distinguished by appeal to the different mechanisms required to guarantee co-reference in a ...
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The inferential role of I is irreducibly deictic. The inferential roles of singular terms are distinguished by appeal to the different mechanisms required to guarantee co-reference in a knowledge-advancing way. Co-typicality is insufficient for variant terms. Anaphoric structures are insufficient for I and other terms used deictically; they depend on identity-judgements and keeping track. The inferential role of I and other deictic terms is irreducibly deictic: it is by singling out individuals made salient in the extra-sentential environment that their uses contribute systematically to what entails what.Less
The inferential role of I is irreducibly deictic. The inferential roles of singular terms are distinguished by appeal to the different mechanisms required to guarantee co-reference in a knowledge-advancing way. Co-typicality is insufficient for variant terms. Anaphoric structures are insufficient for I and other terms used deictically; they depend on identity-judgements and keeping track. The inferential role of I and other deictic terms is irreducibly deictic: it is by singling out individuals made salient in the extra-sentential environment that their uses contribute systematically to what entails what.
François Recanati
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199659982
- eISBN:
- 9780191745409
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659982.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language
A typology of co-reference relations is presented, and the notion of ‘co-reference de jure’ introduced, based on an intuitive criterion proposed by Kit Fine. The discussion focuses on the issue ...
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A typology of co-reference relations is presented, and the notion of ‘co-reference de jure’ introduced, based on an intuitive criterion proposed by Kit Fine. The discussion focuses on the issue whether the mental file framework can account for the clustering of information which gives rise to that phenomenon, and for judgements of identity, in a non-circular way. The notion of proto-linking is introduced to account for the transition from proto-files to conceptual files — an issue to which an appendix is devoted.Less
A typology of co-reference relations is presented, and the notion of ‘co-reference de jure’ introduced, based on an intuitive criterion proposed by Kit Fine. The discussion focuses on the issue whether the mental file framework can account for the clustering of information which gives rise to that phenomenon, and for judgements of identity, in a non-circular way. The notion of proto-linking is introduced to account for the transition from proto-files to conceptual files — an issue to which an appendix is devoted.
