Representational Discourse

Author:

Zalabardo José L.

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter introduces the issue of the meaning grounds of sentences that perform the task of representing the world—the facts that make these sentences have the meanings they have. It presents two main approaches to the task of specifying the meaning grounds of representational sentences—representationalism and pragmatism. Representationalism specifies the meaning ground of a sentence in terms of semantic relations between the sentence and the bits of the world it represents. Pragmatism specifies the meaning ground of a sentence in terms of how it’s used. The chapter presents what I regard as the most plausible version of the representationalist strategy, which treats as the basic notion of its specification of meaning grounds a reference relation pairing terms with items that sentences represent as combined with one another—individuals, properties, etc. It presents the assumption (RR) that the sentences of a discourse can succeed in performing the function of representing the world only if they have representationalist meaning grounds—specifically, if the central predicates of the discourse have referents. It outlines the consequences for this approach of the possibility that the central predicates of a discourse might fail to have referents.

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

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