Zebras, intransigence & semantic apocalypse: Problems for dispositional metasemantics

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Andow, James (2016) Zebras, intransigence & semantic apocalypse: Problems for dispositional metasemantics. Philosophia, 44 (1). pp. 53-62. ISSN 0048-3893

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies (former - to 2024)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Philosophy
Related URLs:	http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11406-...
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	18 Jan 2018 15:30
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2025 00:26
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66004
DOI:	10.1007/s11406-015-9684-5

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