Semantic holism

Known as: Meaning holism

Semantic holism is a theory in the philosophy of language to the effect that a certain part of language, be it a term or a complete sentence, can…

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2012

Abstract A constructive proof is provided for the claim that classical first-order logic admits of a natural deduction…

2011

2006

In this paper, I argue that the indispensability argument unifies all of Hilary Putnam’s diverse work in the philosophy of…

2005

It is a well-established view in the Philosophy of Science that scientific theories introduce new terms, so-called theoretical…

2002

This paper draws upon the works of Wilfred Sellars, Jerry Fodor, and Ruth Millikan to argue against epistemological holism and…

2001

I argue that Quine's famous claim, “any statement can be held true come what may”, demands an interpretation that implies that…

1996

Fodor and Lepore, in their recent book Holism, maintain that if an inference from semantic anatomism to semantic holism is…

1993

1990

A bivalent valuation is snt iff sound (standard PC inference rules take truths only into truths) and non-trivial (not all wffs…

1990

Semantic Holism is the claim that any semantic path from inferential semantics (the indeterminate semantics forced by the…