Davidson’s antirealism?
Frederic Stoutland (1982a, 1982b) has argued that a Davidsonian theory of meaning is incompatible with a realist view of truth, on which the truth-conditions of sentences consist of mind-independent states of affairs or concatenations of extra-linguistic objects. In this paper we show that Stoutland...
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description | Frederic Stoutland (1982a, 1982b) has argued that a Davidsonian theory of meaning is incompatible with a realist view of truth, on which the truth-conditions of sentences consist of mind-independent states of affairs or concatenations of extra-linguistic objects. In this paper we show that Stoutland’s argument is a failure. |
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spelling | doaj.art-da7b2d8cdbd54c02bc96fc0d9264c9512024-02-02T04:08:28ZengEditora Universitária Champagnat - PUCPRESSRevista de Filosofia0104-44431980-59342015-04-01274026527610.7213/aurora.27.040.AO01697Davidson’s antirealism?Alexander Miller0Ali Hossein Khani1University of Otago, Department of Philosophy, Dunedin, New ZealandUniversity of Otago, Department of Philosophy, Dunedin, New ZealandFrederic Stoutland (1982a, 1982b) has argued that a Davidsonian theory of meaning is incompatible with a realist view of truth, on which the truth-conditions of sentences consist of mind-independent states of affairs or concatenations of extra-linguistic objects. In this paper we show that Stoutland’s argument is a failure.https://periodicos.pucpr.br/index.php/aurora/article/view/697 |
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