Zebras, intransigence & semantic apocalypse: Problems for dispositional metasemantics

James Andow

doi:10.1007/s11406-015-9684-5

Zebras, intransigence & semantic apocalypse: Problems for dispositional metasemantics

James Andow

Philosophy

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Abstract

Complete information dispositional metasemantics says that our expressions get their meaning in virtue of what our dispositions to apply those terms would be given complete information. The view has recently been advanced and argued to have a number of attractive features. I argue that that it threatens to make the meanings of our words indeterminate and doesn’t do what it was that made a dispositional view attractive in the first place.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	53-62
Number of pages	10
Journal	Philosophia
Volume	44
Issue number	1
Early online date	4 Feb 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-015-9684-5
Publication status	Published - Mar 2016

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