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Single Idea 9377
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / c. Meaning by Role
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Full Idea
'Conceptual role semantics' says the logical constants mean what they do by virtue of figuring in certain inferences and/or sentences involving them and not others, ..so some inferences and sentences are constitutive of an expression's meaning.
Gist of Idea
'Conceptual role semantics' says terms have meaning from sentences and/or inferences
Source
Paul Boghossian (Analyticity Reconsidered [1996], §III)
Book Ref
-: 'Nous' [-], p.16
A Reaction
If the meaning of the terms derives from the sentences in which they figure, that seems to be meaning-as-use. The view that it depends on the inferences seems very different, and is a more interesting but more risky claim.
The
14 ideas
from Paul Boghossian
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There are no truths in virtue of meaning, but there is knowability in virtue of understanding
[Boghossian, by Jenkins]
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9368
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Epistemological analyticity: grasp of meaning is justification; metaphysical: truth depends on meaning
[Boghossian]
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9369
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'Snow is white or it isn't' is just true, not made true by stipulation
[Boghossian]
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9367
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The a priori is explained as analytic to avoid a dubious faculty of intuition
[Boghossian]
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9372
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Could expressions have meaning, without two expressions possibly meaning the same?
[Boghossian]
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9375
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Conventionalism agrees with realists that logic has truth values, but not over the source
[Boghossian]
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9376
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A sentence may simultaneously define a term, and also assert a fact
[Boghossian]
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9373
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That logic is a priori because it is analytic resulted from explaining the meaning of logical constants
[Boghossian]
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9380
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We can't hold a sentence true without evidence if we can't agree which sentence is definitive of it
[Boghossian]
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9374
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If we learn geometry by intuition, how could this faculty have misled us for so long?
[Boghossian]
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9378
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If meaning depends on conceptual role, what properties are needed to do the job?
[Boghossian]
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9377
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'Conceptual role semantics' says terms have meaning from sentences and/or inferences
[Boghossian]
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9384
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We may have strong a priori beliefs which we pragmatically drop from our best theory
[Boghossian]
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6345
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Minimalism is incoherent, as it implies that truth both is and is not a property
[Boghossian, by Horwich]
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