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The Metasemantics of Indefinite Extensibility
Australasian Journal of Philosophy Pub Date : 2020-10-26 , DOI: 10.1080/00048402.2020.1822894
Vera Flocke 1
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ABSTRACT

Generality relativism is the view that any domain of quantification can always be expanded. The view promises to resolve a broad range of paradoxes, but, without an explanation of how domains expand, it sounds very mysterious. Proponents of linguistic versions of generality relativism try to demystify the view by likening domain expansions to semantic change. They think that domains expand when we re-interpret certain terms so that, upon re-interpretation, the quantifiers range over more things. This article makes trouble for linguistic approaches. According to the so-called charge of ineffability, generality relativism cannot be asserted in a coherent manner—given that asserting the view requires generalising over absolutely all domains of quantification. Generality relativists typically try to answer the charge with the help of modal operators; but linguistic approaches interpret these operators in semantically and syntactically idiosyncratic ways. I argue that, because of these commitments, linguistic approaches ultimately do not have a good response to the charge of ineffability.



中文翻译:

不定可扩展性的元语义

摘要

广义相对主义认为任何量化领域都可以扩展。这种观点有望解决范围广泛的悖论,但是,如果没有解释领域如何扩展,这听起来很神秘。广义相对论的语言版本的支持者试图通过将领域扩展比作语义变化来揭开这一观点的神秘面纱。他们认为,当我们重新解释某些术语时,领域会扩大,因此,在重新解释时,量词涵盖更多事物。这篇文章给语言方法带来了麻烦。根据所谓的不可言说的指控,一般性相对主义不能以连贯的方式断言——鉴于断言这种观点需要绝对概括所有量化领域。广义相对论者通常试图在模态算子的帮助下回答这个问题;但是语言学方法以语义和句法特殊的方式解释这些操作符。我认为,由于这些承诺,语言学方法最终对不可言说的指控没有很好的回应。

更新日期:2020-10-26
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