An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?

Type of Publication: Journal article
Publication status: Published
URI (citable link): http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-0-327529
Author: Kupffer, Manfred
Year of publication: 2008
Published in: Erkenntnis ; 68 (2008), 2. - pp. 225-238. - ISSN 0165-0106. - eISSN 1572-8420
DOI (citable link): https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-007-9090-x
Summary:
Markus Werning attempts to refute Quine’s thesis that meaning is indeterminate. To this purpose he employs Hodges’ theorem about extensions of cofinal meaning functions. But the theorem does neither suffice to solve Quine’s problem nor the problem Werning mistakenly identifies with Quine’s. Nevertheless it makes sense to employ the methods used in Werning’s paper with regard to Quine’s thesis, only that they tell in favour of the thesis instead of against it.
Subject (DDC): 100 Philosophy
Link to License: In Copyright

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KUPFFER, Manfred, 2008. An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?. In: Erkenntnis. 68(2), pp. 225-238. ISSN 0165-0106. eISSN 1572-8420. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s10670-007-9090-x

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