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/9780199251605.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language
This chapter provides a brief survey of varieties of irrealism and neutralizes that brand of irrealism that would undermine the semantic realist's account of meaning. It argues that through ...
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This chapter provides a brief survey of varieties of irrealism and neutralizes that brand of irrealism that would undermine the semantic realist's account of meaning. It argues that through transcendental arguments for the incoherence of irrealism about semantic discourse can be defused, the global anti-realist need not advocate an irrealist view of semantic discourse. It explains that for the semantic anti-realist, meaning is determinate and facts about meaning provide the ultimate justification for one's choice of logic.Less
This chapter provides a brief survey of varieties of irrealism and neutralizes that brand of irrealism that would undermine the semantic realist's account of meaning. It argues that through transcendental arguments for the incoherence of irrealism about semantic discourse can be defused, the global anti-realist need not advocate an irrealist view of semantic discourse. It explains that for the semantic anti-realist, meaning is determinate and facts about meaning provide the ultimate justification for one's choice of logic.
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/9780199251605.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Logic/Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Language
This chapter argues in defence of meaning objectivity against the most celebrated attack of late, namely the rule-following considerations of that abstract hybrid known as Kripkenstein. Semantic ...
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This chapter argues in defence of meaning objectivity against the most celebrated attack of late, namely the rule-following considerations of that abstract hybrid known as Kripkenstein. Semantic anti-realists presuppose a substantial and objective conception of the meanings of sentences and of their constituents. Thus, they are under a pressing obligation to provide some prophylactic to the corrosive doubts about the objectivity of meaning raised by Kripkenstein. This chapter suggests that it is possible to allay Kripkean scepticism about the factuality of semantic discourse.Less
This chapter argues in defence of meaning objectivity against the most celebrated attack of late, namely the rule-following considerations of that abstract hybrid known as Kripkenstein. Semantic anti-realists presuppose a substantial and objective conception of the meanings of sentences and of their constituents. Thus, they are under a pressing obligation to provide some prophylactic to the corrosive doubts about the objectivity of meaning raised by Kripkenstein. This chapter suggests that it is possible to allay Kripkean scepticism about the factuality of semantic discourse.
