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Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics
Complete information dispositional metasemantics says that our expressions get their meaning in virtue of what our dispositions to apply those terms would be given complete information. The view has recently been advanced and argued to have a number of attractive features. I argue that that it threa...
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description | Complete information dispositional metasemantics says that our expressions get their meaning in virtue of what our dispositions to apply those terms would be given complete information. The view has recently been advanced and argued to have a number of attractive features. I argue that that it threatens to make the meanings of our words indeterminate and doesn’t do what it was that made a dispositional view attractive in the first place. |
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spelling | pubmed-60996572018-08-27 Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics Andow, James Philosophia (Ramat Gan) Article Complete information dispositional metasemantics says that our expressions get their meaning in virtue of what our dispositions to apply those terms would be given complete information. The view has recently been advanced and argued to have a number of attractive features. I argue that that it threatens to make the meanings of our words indeterminate and doesn’t do what it was that made a dispositional view attractive in the first place. Springer Netherlands 2016-02-04 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC6099657/ /pubmed/30158721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9684-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Andow, James Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics |
title | Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics |
title_full | Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics |
title_fullStr | Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics |
title_full_unstemmed | Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics |
title_short | Zebras, Intransigence & Semantic Apocalypse: Problems for Dispositional Metasemantics |
title_sort | zebras, intransigence & semantic apocalypse: problems for dispositional metasemantics |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099657/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30158721 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9684-5 |
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