Meaning, Colouring, and Logic: Kaplan vs. Frege on Pejoratives

Although Frege’s aim was not to provide a semantic theory for a natural language, he made, to say the least, valuable and enduring contributions to semantic theory, understood as the assignment of semantic values, and possibly, further meaning properties to natural language expressions. His arguing,...

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Autor: Soutif, Ludovic
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2022
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Repositório:Princípios (Natal. Online)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufrn.br:article/29589
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/29589
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Colouring
Pejoratives
Validity
Frege's dictum
Kaplanian inferences
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Resumo:Although Frege’s aim was not to provide a semantic theory for a natural language, he made, to say the least, valuable and enduring contributions to semantic theory, understood as the assignment of semantic values, and possibly, further meaning properties to natural language expressions. His arguing, notably in Frege (1892), for the assignment to any well-formed linguistic expression of a sense (Sinn), in addition to its reference (Bedeutung) — if any—, is one — and, arguably, the most celebrated and disputed among his contributions.