Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T11:44:35.377Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

There's Glory for You!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 October 2013

Jeffrey Ketland
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This dialogue concerns metasemantics and language cognition. It defends a Lewisian conception of languages as abstract entities (Lewis 1975), arguing that semantic facts are necessities (Soames 1984), and therefore not naturalistically reducible. It identifies spoken languages as idiolects, in line roughly with Chomskyan I-languages. It relocates traditional metasemantic indeterminacy arguments as indeterminacies of what language an agent speaks or cognizes. Finally, it aims to provide a theoretical analysis of the cognizing relation in terms of the agent's assigning certain meanings to strings.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 3 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2013 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)