Rigidity And Content
Year:
1997Published in:
Oxford University PressThe project of giving a philosophical explication of this notion is no different in the above respect from other philosophical explications. Simply describing ordinary usage of locutions such as “what John said'will certainly not lead to any sort of theoretically fruitful concept. However, completely abandoning any pretheoretic notion of content may leave us with nothing about which to theorize fruitfully." I begin this section with an attempt to flesh " For instance, it has been argued that onr ordinary intnition that “Hesperus is Phosphorus and “Hesperus is Hesperus' say different things cannot be preserved on systematic, reconstructed notion of meaning. But if it could be shown that onr ordinary intuition that “Bill Clinton is President" and “2+ 2= 4” say different things also cannot be preserved, we would view the result as casting doubt on the very project of systematically characterizing a notion of content.
Related by author
56 publications found
The Politics Of Language
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Authors: Jason Stanley, David Beaver
Propaganda
Publisher: Routledge
Authors: Jason Stanley, Anne Quaranto
In Defense Of Truth, And The Threat Of Disinformation
Publisher: United States Advisory Commission
Authors: Jason Stanley
How Fascism Works: The Politics Of Us And Them
Publisher: Random House
Authors: Jason Stanley
Skill
Publisher: Noûs
Authors: Jason Stanley, Timothy Williamson
Rationality Is Gendered
Publisher: Collabra: Psychology
Authors: Jason Stanley, Yarrow Dunham, Olivia Pavco-Giaccia, Martha Fitch Little
How Propaganda Works
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Authors: Jason Stanley
Banning Ideas And Authors Is Not A ‘Culture War’ – It’s Fascism
Publisher: The Guardian
Authors: Jason Stanley
Modality And What Is Said
Publisher: Philosophical Perspectives
Authors: Jason Stanley
Toward A Non‑Ideal Philosophy Of Language
Publisher: Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Authors: Jason Stanley, David Beaver