II 201
Indeterminacy/Gavagai/Theory/Reference/FieldVsQuine: the indeterminacy does not only refer to the absolute sense. - Either
a) to the absolute
b) to the relative reference.
Absolute reference/Field: here there is no fact which decides what Gavagai has as an extension.
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Absoluteness/Field, >
Reference, >
Meaning.
II 202
Correspondence theory/indeterminacy/Gavagai/Field: new correspondence theory: partial signification: Gavagai has the relation of partial signification
a) to the quantity of rabbits
b) to the quantity of rabbit parts.
This is only interesting, if one can explain truth with it. - Then "is" is either identity relation or partial identity.
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Identity, >
Partial identity, >
"is", >
Truth.
Indeterminacy: is then the thesis that there is no fact that decides about it. - This does not mean that there is no disquotation scheme. - Modi
fication: "signifies partially a and partially b".
Partial signification/everyday language: E.g. "tall man": 180-185cm?
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Everyday language.
II 204
Problem: relativized signification and denotation leads again to the myth of the museum.
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Myth of the museum.
For each predicate T, set y (or {x I Fx} and translation manual M:
T signifies {x I Fx} relative to M iff M T displays to a term which signifies y (or {x I Fx}).
Gavagai/FieldVsQuine: Quine needs a connection between "rabbits" ((s) not "Gavagai") in our language and actual rabbits. But his indeterminacy thesis denies the existence of such a one which does not consist at the same time equally well out of rabbit parts.
II 216
Gavagi/metalanguage/Field: we need defined expressions for the description of the partial extension: - E.g. "Rabbit" partly signifies the set of rabbits and partly the set of the unseparated parts of rabbits.
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Metalanguage.
Question: how can this be understood by someone for whom the last two tokens of "rabbit" are indeterminate?
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Indeterminacy.
N.B.: The sentence is just as understandable and has the same truth conditions when the metalanguage is indeterminate.
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Understanding, >
Truth conditions.
II 220
Gavagai/indeterminacy/Field: the addition of "is an unseparated part of" to language reduces the indeterminacy. - (This comes from an inflationary view).
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Inflationism.
