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Intuitions on Semantic Reference
Review of Philosophy and Psychology Pub Date : 2021-06-01 , DOI: 10.1007/s13164-021-00560-7
Massimiliano Vignolo , Filippo Domaneschi

Since Machery et al. Cognition 92, B1-B12 (2004) attacked Kripke’s refutation of classical descriptivism, their experiment has been repeated several times, in its original version or in some revised ones, by theorists with contrasting intents. Some repeated the experiment for confirming its results, others for proving them unreliable. One striking characteristic of those surveys is that they mostly replicated the data collected in Machery et al.’s Cognition 92, B1-B12, 2004 experiment: less than 60% of Westerners showed preference for the causal-historical response. We side with the critics of Machery et al.’s experiment. In this paper, we present the results of a survey that tests some hypotheses for explaining that percentage of Westerners’ preferences without taking it as evidence that more than 40% of Westerners have descriptivist intuitions on semantic reference. The aim of our paper is not merely to question the reliability of Machery et al.’s experiment. In sections 4 and 5 we assess the impact of our survey on the current debate in experimental semantics. We provide a novel account of the nature of the epistemic ambiguity that affects experiments in theory of reference and explain the consequences that our account of the epistemic ambiguity has for subsequent works trying to avoid ambiguities.



中文翻译:

语义参考的直觉

由于 Machery 等人。Cognition 92, B1-B12 (2004) 攻击了 Kripke 对经典描述主义的反驳,他们的实验已经多次重复,无论是原始版本还是一些修订版本,理论家都有不同的意图。一些人重复实验以确认其结果,另一些人则证明它们不可靠。这些调查的一个显着特征是它们主要复制了 Machery 等人的Cognition 中收集的数据92, B1-B12, 2004 实验:不到 60% 的西方人表现出对因果历史反应的偏好。我们支持 Machery 等人实验的批评者。在本文中,我们展示了一项调查的结果,该调查测试了一些用于解释西方人偏好百分比的假设,但并未将其作为超过 40% 的西方人对语义参考具有描述性直觉的证据。我们论文的目的不仅仅是质疑 Machery 等人实验的可靠性。在第 4 节和第 5 节中,我们评估了我们的调查对当前实验语义学辩论的影响。

更新日期:2021-06-01
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