Single Idea 2439

[catalogued under 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning]

Full Idea

It is the essence of semantic externalism that there is nothing that you have to believe, there are no inferences that you have to accept, to have the concept 'elm'.

Gist of Idea

Semantic externalism says the concept 'elm' needs no further beliefs or inferences

Source

Jerry A. Fodor (The Elm and the Expert [1993], §2.I)

Book Reference

Fodor,Jerry A.: 'The Elm and the Expert' [MIT 1995], p.37


A Reaction

[REMINDER: broad content is filed in 18.C.7, under 'Thought' rather than under language. That is because I am a philospher of thought, rather than of language.