ISBN:
9780199557936
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 338 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Truth and Words
DDC:
306.4401
Keywords:
Language and logic
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Predicate (Logic)
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Truth
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Grammar, Comparative and general Sentences
Abstract:
To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past. The conventional wisdom is that there can be no such truth predicate. For it appears that the only instances of the disquotational pattern that we are directly licensed to accept are those that define 'is true' for ourown sentences as we use them now. Gary Ebbs shows that this appearance is illusory. He constructs an account of w
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; 1. Regimentation; 1.1. Regimentation as Linguistic Policy; 1.2. Ambiguity; 1.3. Is Regimentation Possible?; 1.4. Vagueness; 1.5. Quantifier Domains, Tense, and Time; 1.6. Descriptions and Proper Names; 1.7. Pronouns and Demonstratives; 1.8. Why Ordinary Language is Indispensable; 1.9. Limitations of First-Order Logic; 2. The Tarski-Quine Thesis; 2.1. The Indispensability Argument; 2.2. Why Generalize on Valid Sentences?; 2.3. Three Attempts to Generalize on Sentences without Using a Truth Predicate; 2.4. Horwich's Minimal Theory
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2.5. A Naive Theory of Why it is Epistemically Reasonable for us to Accept T-Sentences2.6. Surrogate T-Sentences and Explication; 2.7. Tarski's Convention T; 2.8. 'True-in-L' Defined in Terms of Satisfaction; 2.9. How (Tr) Satisfies Convention T and Enables us to Derive ST-Sentences; 2.10. Schematic Definitions of 'True-in-L' Rejected; 2.11. Adopting the Tarski-Quine Thesis; 2.12. Two Objections; 3. The Intersubjectivity Constraint; 3.1. A Preliminary Formulation of the Intersubjectivity Constraint; 3.2. Practical Identifications of Words (PIWs)
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3. Practical Judgements of Sameness of Satisfaction (PJSSs)3.4. Agreement and Disagreement; 3.5. Learning from Others; 3.6. Discoveries; 3.7. A Reformulation of the Intersubjectivity Constraint; 3.8. Trust without Trustworthiness?; 3.9. A Quinean Objection: PJSSs are not Factual; 3.10. Realism as Integral to the Semantics of the Predicate 'True'; 4. How to Think about Words; 4.1. Is the Tarski-Quine Thesis Incompatible with the Intersubjectivity Constraint?; 4.2. Use versus Mention (Transparent Use); 4.3. The Orthographic Conception of Words; 4.4. Explanatory Use (Ex-Use)
Description / Table of Contents:
4.5. The Token-and-Ex-Use Model of Words4.6. Types and Tokens; 4.7. Kaplan's Common Currency Conception of Words; 4.8. The Context Principle and the PJSS-Based Conception of Words; 4.9. How to Satisfy the Intersubjectivity Constraint without Rejecting the Tarski-Quine Thesis; 4.10. Preliminary Objections and Replies; 5. Learning from Others, Interpretation, and Charity; 5.1. Is the Intersubjectivity Constraint Compatible with the Negation of the Tarski-Quine Thesis?; 5.2. Language Ex-Use and Interpretation; 5.3. A Case in which One Person Learns from Another; 5.4. Two Conditionals
Description / Table of Contents:
5.5. Strategy5.6. What is Davidson's Principle of Charity?; 5.7. Davidson's Framework for Evaluating (3) and (4); 5.8. Why the Conjunction of (3) and (4) Violates Davidson's Principle of Charity; 5.9. My Conclusion Drawn, Generalized, and Explained; 5.10. Is the Principle of Charity Optional?; 5.11. An Alternative to Davidson's Principle of Charity; 5.12. Frontiers of Translation; 5.13. The Method behind these Conclusions; 6. A Puzzle about Sameness of Satisfaction across Time; 6.1. An Intuition about Sameness of Satisfaction across Time; 6.2. Methodological Analyticity
Description / Table of Contents:
6.3. Causal-Historical Theories
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [320]-329) and index
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