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Referential Mechanics - Direct Reference and the Foundations of Semantics (Hardcover)
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Referential Mechanics - Direct Reference and the Foundations of Semantics (Hardcover)
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This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern
semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general
semantics for natural language. In the first three chapters,
foundational analyses from three philosophers -Saul Kripke, David
Kaplan and Keith Donnellan-are dissected in detail. The differences
between their respective ideas lead to varying consequences in the
philosophy of mind, the metaphysics of necessity, and the
epistemological idea of a priori knowledge. In the last chapter,
two central puzzles said to threaten direct reference are raised.
One is Frege's puzzle about judgments of cognitive significance and
informativeness. This puzzle is analyzed and is shown to be the
opposite of a threat; informative identities are, in effect, a
consequence of the new cognitive insights behind direct reference.
The second puzzle, the Partee-Kaplan, is a threat: how to unify the
referential semantics of nouns with the seemingly non referential
semantics of denoting phrases? The volume criticizes the concept of
a unifying methodology-assimilating the referential nouns to the
complex denoting phrases by way of (set theoretic) "ontological
sublimation "-as proposed by Montague-and launches an orthogonal
unification methodology generalizing direct reference to the common
nouns anchoring the denoting phrases.
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