Edenic Intentionalism

Author:

Unnsteinsson Elmar

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter states the essentials of the theory of reference on offer, which is called edenic intentionalism. It consists in a specific account of the relationship between referential competence and the mental state of confusion. Roughly, confusion disrupts the proper or characteristic function of the speech act of singular reference. Crucially, the chapter argues that the disruption is constitutive, in the sense that the locus of malfunction is in the inner constitution of the mechanism of reference as such. It argues that competent speakers acquire sensitivity to the edenic maxim, which states that one should try to avoid being confused about the objects to which one intends to refer. It goes on to argue that confusion in principle corrupts the linguistic evidence speakers produce in making an utterance and, also, that proper names cannot serve their normal function in a group of confused speakers.

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

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