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Idealisation in semantics: truth-conditional semantics for radical contextualists
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Abstract
In this paper, I shall provide a novel response to the argument from context-sensitivity against truth-conditional semantics. It is often argued that the contextual influences on truth-conditions outstrip the resources of standard truth-conditional accounts, and so truth-conditional semantics rests on a mistake. The argument assumes that truth-conditional semantics is legitimate if and only if natural language sentences have truth-conditions. I shall argue that this assumption is mistaken. Truth-conditional analyses should be viewed as idealised approximations of the complexities of natural language meaning. From this perspective, disparity between the scientific model and its real-world target is to be expected. I elaborate on what such an approach to semantics would look like.
Acceptance Date | Dec 10, 2019 |
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Publication Date | Jan 9, 2020 |
Journal | Inquiry |
Print ISSN | 0020-174X |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1 - 30 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712225 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712225?needAccess=true |
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