Epistemo-Semantic Coherentism: An Attitudinal View of Meaning Based on Epistemic Pragmatism

• Authors: İskender Taşdelen

Title variants

PL

Epistemo-Semantic Coherentism: An Attitudinal View of Meaning Based on Epistemic Pragmatism

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

This article develops a conception of linguistic meaning that treats it as an attitude on the part of language users towards pairs of expressions. As with propositional attitudes, these meaning attitudes are subject to being deliberately altered over time by language users, with the aim of maximizing the efficiency of their language use. Therefore, meaning attitudes can be justified or refuted in practical terms. Our instrumentalist-coherentist approach, which allows for meanings to be advocated for alongside beliefs, provides a viable theory of justification of that kind. This view fits better with the evolutionary nature of linguistic phenomena, and resolves the problem of substitutability in opaque contexts.

Keywords

EN

coherence; justification; meaning; belief; strategic and definitory rules

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne
• Journal: Studia Semiotyczne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2019-12-27

Contributors

author

İskender Taşdelen