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By what generic method do we correctly determine that an analytical expression of language is true?
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By what generic method do we correctly determine that an analytical expression of language is true?
Analytical constructions, a notion that has become tarnished somewhat since Two Dogmas, ...
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By what generic method do we correctly determine that an analytical expression of language is true?
{Linguistic/Empirical Distinction} (adaptation of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction)
Truth entirely contained within language versus truth requiring sense data from the sense organs, direct ...
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What qualifies as being 'part of' the state of affairs for an event?
'State of affairs' is a holistic concept, so yes, both the beginning and end 'states' contain the moon, a Queen (or King) of England, and nations like France. But for the purposes of the ...
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Do images have propositional content?
Verbal utterances (speech), ink marks on paper (words or drawings), pictures, sensory perceptions, memory traces that suddenly interrupt an ongoing process -- any of those, and in fact any observed ...
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Do images have propositional content?
It's uncontroversial that most declarative sentences have propositional content,
Not so fast. While outside the philosophic context hardly anyone would object, in philosophy of language a lot more ...
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Do images have propositional content?
The Picture Theory of Language was briefly put forth by early Wittgenstein (SEP). From WP:
The picture theory of language, also known as the picture theory of meaning, is a theory of linguistic ...
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What are some refutations to the etymological fallacy?
If the etymological fallacy is true, then no arguments are possible with words as there is no 'a priori' or axioms with regard to our words (except as used, or be defined, historically). This would ...
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Is a stable quantifier-free language really possible?
Quantifiers are meaningful and they probably all have interesting logical properties.
Formal logic started by Aristotle's syllogisms, which feature quantifiers.
Quantifiers are convenient means of ...
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Is a stable quantifier-free language really possible?
You used a question mark as a superscript to a question mark. Awesome. :D
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So wouldn't a quantifier-free language have to eschew set theory and arithmetic to that extent, to get to where its ...
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Language and Mind
The Limits of my language are the limits of my world
Wittgenstein
This quote is well known and over used, especially in circles like this site but unless it is more detailed and nuanced it perhaps ...
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What are some refutations to the etymological fallacy?
As far as "refutation" of the etymological fallacy goes, you seem to be on the right track: there ought to be a recognizable, therefore applicable norm when inventing/coining words. You see ...
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What are some refutations to the etymological fallacy?
Definitions and oughts aren't arguments. They can be useless definitions and wicked oughts, but they can't be fallacious arguments. If nothing was claimed to follow, nothing was claimed which does not ...
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What are some refutations to the etymological fallacy?
The first job of definitions is to facilitate communication. To that end, words by default should have a meaning derived from current use. This is irrespective of their etymology; for clear ...
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Possible variants of T-schema
To write within (2), "snow is white"(ML) is incorrect. "Snow is white" is an object language sentence. It is a statement about snow, not a statement about sentences. Sentence (1) ...
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Possible variants of T-schema
I think the purpose of Tarski’s venture is to use 1) to clarify what True means. Tarski’s theorem then shows that a metalanguage with 2) (assuming the statements 1) and 2) are themselves metalanguage ...
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