Quotation

Saka, Paul

doi:10.1111/phc3.12069

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“…The quote from Dummett is important for yet another reason. In his seminal paper Tarski (1933Tarski ( /1983 proposes a number of other approaches to quotation, many of which have been developed in the literature (see Cappelen & Lepore 2007;Saka 2013;Maier 2014 for some relevant surveys). Nevertheless, as pointed out by Dummett, it is the functional approach, according to which the metalanguage is derived from the object language, which is crucial for Tarskian semantics.…”

Section: The Emergence Of the Metalanguage: Reactivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?

Wiślicki¹

2020

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The paper discusses Tarski's approach to quotation. It starts from showing that it is vulnerable to semantic inconsistencies connected with what is known as Reach's puzzle, formulated in 1938 by a Czech logician Karel Reach. This fact gives rise to serious problems concerning the relation between the metalanguage and an object language. Moreover, the paper touches upon a historic aspect, pointing out that the problem at hand is discussed in the only paper signed up as Al. Tajtelbaum, i.e. Alfred Tarski's original name. It argues that the puzzle reveals the importance of reopening the discussion on the understanding and limitations of deriving the metalanguage from an object language.

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Section: The Emergence Of the Metalanguage: Reactivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Could Tajtelbaum Question What Tarski Could Not?

Wiślicki¹

2020

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“…Below, I reconstruct the major theories of pure quotation within this grammatical framework by adding different composition and interpretation rules, extending the lexicon, and/or changing the models. For broad introductions to the various forms and theories of quotation, I refer to Cappelen and Lepore () and Saka (). Sacrificing wide and historically accurate coverage for depth and precision, I focus here only on pure quotation and moreover discuss only the four classic approaches…”

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Pure Quotation

Maier

2014

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Pure quotation, as in ‘cat’ has three letters, is a linguistic device designed for referring to linguistic expressions. I present a uniform reconstruction of the four classic philosophical accounts of the phenomenon: the proper name theory, the description theory, the demonstrative theory, and the disquotational theory. I evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal with respect to fundamental semantic properties like compositionality, productivity, and recursivity.

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“…In this case study I trace the development of a semantics for mixed quotation. To get a more general overview of quotation research I refer to Cappelen & Lepore's (2012) and Saka's (2013) surveys of philosophical theories of quotation; de Brabanter's ( 2005) collection, and his 2010 survey article, on "hybrid quotation" (which includes mixed and scare quoting); my own narrowly focused survey on pure quotation (Maier 2014b); and, finally, the collection of Brendel et al (2011) that brings together philosophical and linguistic approaches to different forms of quotation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%