Property Inheritance, Deferred Reference and Copredication

Gotham, Matthew

doi:10.1093/jos/ffab020

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“…The form of polysemy that generates copredications has not been given a satisfactory treatment in the externalist literature (for careful analysis, see Gotham 2016Gotham , 2020.…”

Section: Referring To Impossible Entities With Copredicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Citadel Itself: Defending Semantic Internalism

Murphy

2023

glob. Philosophy

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Semantic internalism is the view that linguistic meaning amounts to forms of conceptual instructions, and that the process of forming linguistic representations does not involve reference to extra-mental entities. Contemporary philosophy of language remains predominantly externalist in focus, having developed systems of extensional reference which depart from classical rationalist assumptions. I will defend semantic internalism using a broad range of case studies, accruing what I see at the most convincing arguments in its favour. Particular focus will be placed on exemplar cases such as natural kind and artifactual terms.Copredication via inherent polysemy will be used as a strong source of evidence for internalism, countering the received view of the externalist character of meaning. Overall, my aim is to comprehensively defend internalism against its critics and to push the exploration of linguistic content and meaning "back into the brain".

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“…The form of polysemy that generates copredications has not been given a satisfactory treatment in the externalist literature (for careful analysis, see Gotham 2016Gotham , 2020.…”

Section: Referring To Impossible Entities With Copredicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Citadel Itself: Defending Semantic Internalism

Murphy

2023

glob. Philosophy

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“…There are various strategies one might invoke to respond to the problem polysemy poses (see Falkum & Vicente (2015), Gotham (2017), Vicente (2021), Gotham (2022) for helpful discussions). A natural way of resolving the concern that polysemy poses for hypothesis like (ECC) and (ETC), is to build the flexibility of such expressions into lexical entries for them, treating them like indexicals.…”

Section: Why the Fundamental Problem Matters For Ordinary Language Ph...mentioning

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Knowledge, the concept know, and the word know: considerations from polysemy and pragmatics

Dudley,

Vogel

2023

Synthese

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A recent focus on philosophical methodology has reinvigorated ordinary language philosophy with the contention that philosophical inquiry is better served by attending to the ordinary use of language. Taking cues from findings in the social sciences that deploy methods utilizing language, various ordinary language philosophers embrace a guiding mandate: that ordinary language usage is more reflective of our linguistic and conceptual competencies than standard philosophical methods. We analyze two hypotheses that are implicit in the research from which ordinary language approaches take their cues. This pair of optimistic assumptions (a) bind word meanings to properties of their corresponding concepts and (b) regard language as a direct reflection of our underlying cognitive processes and competencies. Polysemy and pragmatics complicate each assumption. Because the ordinary language philosopher's methodological mandate compels us to consider how individuals process the utterances they encounter in deciphering the communicative intentions of speakers, failing to attend to the import of polysemy and pragmatics in philosophical and empirical methods has the potential to frustrate the aims of their insightful mandate. The significance of those two complications is worked out with the case study of knowledge.

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“…However, intuitively, it seems that (18) could also be true if there were two physical copies of the same informational content. One easy and plausible solution is to appeal to meaning transfer mechanisms (see Gotham, 2021). Sentences ( 16) and ( 17) would be similar to sentence ( 19):…”

Section: The Counting Puzzle and The Revised Mereological Theorymentioning

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The Denotation of Copredicative Nouns

Ortega-Andrés

2022

Erkenn

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Copredication is the phenomenon whereby two or more predicates seem to require that their argument denotes different things. The denotation of words that copredicate has been broadly discussed. In this paper, I investigate the metaphysics behind this question. Thus, mereological theories of dot objects claim that these nouns denote complex entities; Asher (Lexical meaning in context, Cambridge University Press, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511793936) thinks that they denote bare particulars; and the Activation Package Theory contends that they stand for multiple denotations. According to the Activation Package Theory, copredicative nouns stand for complex knowledge structures that offer a range of multiple potential denotations. In this paper, I claim that the Activation Package Theory contributes to solve some of the metaphysical questions that arise from copredication.

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Property Inheritance, Deferred Reference and Copredication

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

The Citadel Itself: Defending Semantic Internalism

The Citadel Itself: Defending Semantic Internalism

Knowledge, the concept know, and the word know: considerations from polysemy and pragmatics

The Denotation of Copredicative Nouns

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