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[from 'Semantic Relationism' by Kit Fine, in 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 2. Semantics ]

Full Idea

The standard referentialist semantics for a language with names is that the semantic value of the name is the object, the content of a predicate is a property, and the content of a logical connective is an operation on propositions.

Gist of Idea

Referentialist semantics has objects for names, properties for predicates, and propositions for connectives

Source

Kit Fine (Semantic Relationism [2007], 2.F)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Semantic Relationism' [OUP 2007], p.53


A Reaction

My particular bęte noire is the idea that every predicate names a property. It is the tyranny of having to have a comprehensive semantic theory that drives this implausible picture. And I don't see how an object can be a semantic value…