Zitierte Zeichenreihen
Erkenntnis 44 (3):279 - 304 (1996)
| Abstract | We use quotation marks when we wish to refer to an expression. We can and do so refer even when this expression is composed of characters that do not occur in our alphabet. That's why Tarski, Quine, and Geach's theories of quotation don't work. The proposals of Davidson, Frege, and C. Washington, however, do not provide a plausible account of quotation either. (Section I). The problem is to construct a Tarskian theory of truth for an object language that contains quotation marks, without appealing to quotation marks in the metalanguage. I propose to supply Tarski's truth definition with one axiom that determines the denotation of all expressions containing quotation marks. According to this axiom, quotation marks create a non-extensional context. Since admitting such contexts does not lead to any difficulties in the recursive truth characterization, we may indeed dispense with extensionalism. (Section II). Finally, I argue that we classify and denote expressions in the very same way that we classify and denote extralinguistic entities. Both tokens and types of written signs can be easily incorporated into the naturalist's worldview. (Section III). | |||||||||
| Keywords | Peter GEACH Donald DAVIDSON Corey WASHINGTON sign quotation marks naturalism mention type token extensionalism | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
  |
| External links |
|
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesStefano Predelli (2008). The Demonstrative Theory of Quotation. Linguistics and Philosophy 31 (5):555-572.
Bart Geurts & Emar Maier (2005). Quotation in Context. In Philippe de Brabanter (ed.), Hybrid Quotations. John Benjamins.
François Recanati (2001). Open Quotation. Mind 110 (439):637-687.
Emar Maier (2008). Breaking Quotations. In Satoh et al (ed.), New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Springer.
Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore (1997). Varieties of Quotation. Mind 106 (423):429-450.
Emar Maier (2007). Quotation Marks as Monsters, or the Other Way Around? In Dekker Aloni (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium.
Chung-Chieh Shan (2010). The Character of Quotation. Linguistics and Philosophy 33 (5):417-443.
Jonathan Bennett (1988). Quotation. Noûs 22 (3):399-418.
Daniel Gutzmann & Erik Stei (forthcoming). How Quotation Marks What People Do with Words. Journal of Pragmatics.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads15 ( #78,761 of 549,754 )Recent downloads (6 months)8 ( #8,982 of 549,754 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
