Single Idea 21641

[catalogued under 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role]

Full Idea

An inferential role semantics is generally seen as a large-scale alternative to a semantics based on reference and other language-world relations.

Gist of Idea

Inferential role semantics is an alternative to semantics that connects to the world

Source

Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 03.4.5)

Book Reference

Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.72


A Reaction

Presumably the other obvious language-world relation is truth. Being a robust realist, I take it I have to be strongly committed to semantics which connects to the world - or do I? Reality is robust, but our talk about it is evasive?