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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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Confirmation holismExternalismLogical constantPhilosophy of mind

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2014
2014
Semantic Holism and Language Learning
Holistic theories of meaning have, at least since Dummett’s Frege: The Philosophy of language, been assumed to be problematic… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
LIS research on information sharing activities - people, places, or information
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate and critically examine conceptualisations of information sharing… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Consciousness is Underived Intentionality
Representationalists argue that phenomenal states are intentional states of a special kind. This paper offers an account of the… 
2005
2005
Semantic Holism and (Non-)Compositionality in Scientific Theories
It is a well-established view in the Philosophy of Science that scientific theories introduce new terms, so-called theoretical… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
Holism, Language Acquisition, and Algebraic Logic
In the first section of this paper I present a well known objection to meaning holism, according to which holism is inconsistent… 
2001
2001
The Duhem thesis, the Quine thesis and the problem of meaning holism in scientific theories.
Through a detailed analysis of Duhem's writings some light is cast on the relations between holism, underdetermination and theory… 
1998
1998
Augustine on the Impossibility of Teaching
The information-transference account of teaching takes it to be a process in which information is transferred from one person's… 
1996
1996
Confirmation holism and semantic holism
Fodor and Lepore, in their recent book Holism, maintain that if an inference from semantic anatomism to semantic holism is… 
1990
1990
Semantic holism
A bivalent valuation is snt iff sound (standard PC inference rules take truths only into truths) and non-trivial (not all wffs… 
1990
1990
Semantic Holism is seriously false
  • Gerald J. Massey
  • Studia Logica: An International Journal for…
  • 1990
  • Corpus ID: 206779793
Semantic Holism is the claim that any semantic path from inferential semantics (the indeterminate semantics forced by the… 
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