Single Idea 19166

[catalogued under 3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 3. Correspondence Truth critique]

Full Idea

The Slingshot argument (of Frege, Church and Gödel) assumes that if two sentences are logically equivalent, they correspond to the same thing, and what a sentence corresponds to is not changed if a singular term is replaced by a coreferring term.

Gist of Idea

The Slingshot assumes substitutions give logical equivalence, and thus identical correspondence

Source

Donald Davidson (Truth and Predication [2005], 6)

Book Reference

Davidson,Donald: 'Truth and Predication' [Belknap Harvard 2005], p.128


A Reaction

This obviously won't work for 'Oedipus thinks he ought to marry Jocasta'. Sentences correspond, I presume, to what they are about, which is often a matter of emphasis or phrasing. Hence the Slingshot sounds like nonsense to me.

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