Single Idea 14704

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 8. A Priori as Analytic]

Full Idea

Generalized 2D semantics is meant to vindicate the traditional idea that we have apriori access to our own meanings through armchair reflection.

Gist of Idea

2D semantics gives us apriori knowledge of our own meanings

Source

Laura Schroeter (Two-Dimensional Semantics [2010], 2.1)

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.12


A Reaction

The idea is to split meaning in two, so that we know one part of it a priori. It is an unfashionably internalist view of meaning (which doesn't make it wrong!).

Related Idea

Idea 14712 A sentence is a priori if no possible way the world might actually be could make it false [Chalmers]