The context principle and the idea of explaining meaning as from the outside

• Authors: Jan Wawrzyniak

Abstracts

EN

The aim of my article is to show that accepting the context principle (CP) almost inevitably leads to a rejection of the project of giving a completely general explanation of linguistic meaning. I will argue that it is difficult to reconcile CP with any version of the project of giving such an explanation of meaning that does not appeal to semantic terms. I will begin with a short characterization of CP. I will outline the reading of CP which I myself embrace. Then I will briefly characterize the difference between the idea of explaining the meanings of linguistic expressions from outside of any language, and that of doing so from inside of a language. Then I will move on to the main point of my article, arguing that it is difficult to render the consequences of CP compatible with the idea of an explanation of meaning external to all linguistic content.

Keywords

EN

context principle; Frege; holism; full-blooded theory of meaning; modest theory of meaning; Dummett; McDowell; Stroud.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 47
• Pages: 55-78

Contributors

author

Jan Wawrzyniak

• Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie

• https://orcid.org/0000000317756886

Identifiers

DOI

10.18276/aie.2019.47-03

Biblioteka Nauki

1621588