Full Idea
A second line of reduction is semantic, and holds in virtue of the meaning of the sentences. It should then be possible to acquire an understanding of the reduced sentence on the basis of understanding the sentences to which it reduces.
Gist of Idea
Reduction might be semantic, where a reduced sentence is understood through its reduction
Source
Kit Fine (The Question of Realism [2001], 3)
Book Reference
-: 'Philosophers' Imprint' [-], p.9
A Reaction
Fine says this avoids the first objection to the grammatical approach (see Reaction to Idea 15050), but still can't handle the de re aspect of reduction. Fine also doubts whether this understanding qualifies as 'reduction'.
Related Idea
Idea 15050 Reduction might be producing a sentence which gets closer to the logical form [Fine,K]