Minimalism and Speakers’ Intuitions
Minimalism proposes a semantics that does not account for speakers’ intuitions about the truth conditions of a range of sentences or utterances. Thus, a challenge for this view is to offer an explanation of how its assignment of semantic contents to these sentences is grounded in their use. Such an...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2011-05-01
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| description | Minimalism proposes a semantics that does not account for speakers’ intuitions about the truth conditions of a range of sentences or utterances. Thus, a challenge for this view is to offer an explanation of how its assignment of semantic contents to these sentences is grounded in their use. Such an account was mainly offered by Soames, but also suggested by Cappelen and Lepore. The article criticizes this explanation by presenting four kinds of counterexamples to it, and arrives at the conclusion that minimalism has not successfully answered the above-mentioned challenge. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-53d6f453e3134220aa63f7c5bd8e07222025-08-20T03:09:02ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaIdeas y Valores0120-00622011-36682011-05-0160146Minimalism and Speakers’ IntuitionsMatías GariazzoMinimalism proposes a semantics that does not account for speakers’ intuitions about the truth conditions of a range of sentences or utterances. Thus, a challenge for this view is to offer an explanation of how its assignment of semantic contents to these sentences is grounded in their use. Such an account was mainly offered by Soames, but also suggested by Cappelen and Lepore. The article criticizes this explanation by presenting four kinds of counterexamples to it, and arrives at the conclusion that minimalism has not successfully answered the above-mentioned challenge.https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/idval/article/view/36750H. CappelenE. LeporeS. Soamesintuitionsminimalism |
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| title | Minimalism and Speakers’ Intuitions |
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| topic | H. Cappelen E. Lepore S. Soames intuitions minimalism |
| url | https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/idval/article/view/36750 |
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