Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 370/71
Reference/Leeds: is no longer defined in terms of translation, because one cannot say in theoretical terms:
  (Ey) (N refers to y)
Whereby N is a foreign-language word.
>Theoretical terms, >Theoretical entities, >Theoretical language, >Meaning, >Assertion of existence.
Problem: the existence of y is not secured.
Today: Causal theories.
>Causal theory of reference, >Causal theory of names, >Causal theory of knowledge.
Problem: Numbers are probably not referring - hence there is probably no reference definition for any language possible.
>Numbers, >Mathematical entities.
I 372/373
Problem: if reference is undefined ("B" or "C"), from a foreign-language expression, then "A" veut dire A" is just as ambiguous! - Then there are several reference schemes defined by a single Tarskian reference sentence - We cannot say that a foreign language has no standard interpretation by invoking the indeterminacy of the translation.
>A. Tarski, >Truth definition/Tarski, >Translation, >Translation indeterminacy.
I 374
Standard interpretation: must not be given, even if ""Caesar" has the relation R to Caesar" is trivially true by determination.
Cf. >Primitive Reference/Field.