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Under Carnap’s Lamp: Flat Pre-semantics

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“Flat pre-semantics” lets each parameter of truth (etc.) be considered sepa-rately and equally, and without worrying about grammatical complications. This allows one to become a little clearer on a variety of philosophical-logical points, such as the use fulness of Carnapian tolerance and the deep relativity of truth. A more definite result of thinking in terms of flat pre-semantics lies in the articulation of some instructive ways of categorizing operations on meanings in purely logical terms in relation to various parame- ters of truth (etc.); namely, closing vs. leaving open, local vs. translocal, and anchored vs. unanchored. Basic relations among these categories are established.

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Belnap, N. Under Carnap’s Lamp: Flat Pre-semantics. Stud Logica 80, 1–28 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-005-6774-6

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