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| Semantic holism, philosophy: semantic holism is the view that the meaning of all linguistic expressions depends on the meanings of other expressions. See also holism, persuasive holism, meanings, semantics, truth conditions, assertibility conditions, truth, assertiveness, expressiveness._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jerry Fodor on Semantic Holism - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 41 Semantic Holism/Fodor/Lepore: the semantic holism comprises a combination of the Quine-Duhem thesis (no sentence individually verifiable) with verificationism. Quine-Duhem thesis: every sentence of a theory determines the level of verifiability of every other sentence of the theory. Verificationism: meaning corresponds to the verification method. >Quine-Duhem thesis. Holism: every sentence of the theory determines the meaning of every other sentence of the theory. Fodor/LeporeVsHolism: then only identical theories could have any common inferences and this cannot be true. >Holism. IV ~ 49 Fodor/Lepore VsSemantic Holism: natural semantic objects are linguistic: e.g. formulas of natural objects of confirmation. Trans-linguistically they are propositions. Verificationism and confirmation holism are both true, but of different things! Therefore, semantic holism does not follow. IV 54 Meaning holism/Fodor/Lepore: additional argument pro: according to Russell's incomplete symbol: this is defined in use. Use then represents the larger unit. Fodor/LeporeVs: 1) Definition in use does not guarantee meaning. 2) It is unclear whether they have the semantic properties from the relations of words to the sentences in which they occur. 3) It is also unclear whether the syntactic and semantic units match. IV 125 Meaning Holism/MH/Fodor/Lepore: we can avoid the inference from belief holism to meaning holism if we assume that the objects which have inherent semantic properties are initially neither propositional attributes nor speech acts, but representations. >Representations._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
F/L Jerry Fodor Ernest Lepore Holism. A Shoppers Guide Cambridge USA Oxford UK 1992 Fodor I Jerry Fodor "Special Sciences (or The Disunity of Science as a Working Hypothesis", Synthese 28 (1974), 97-115 In Kognitionswissenschaft, Dieter Münch, Frankfurt/M. 1992 Fodor II Jerry Fodor Jerrold J. Katz Sprachphilosophie und Sprachwissenschaft In Linguistik und Philosophie, G. Grewendorf/G. Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1974/1995 Fodor III Jerry Fodor Jerrold J. Katz The availability of what we say in: Philosophical review, LXXII, 1963, pp.55-71 In Linguistik und Philosophie, G. Grewendorf/G. Meggle, Frankfurt/M. 1974/1995 |
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