Satisfaction Through the Ages
The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 2000:89-97 (2000)
| Abstract | In a recent paper, Ebbs has given an elegant statement of a notable puzzle that has recurred in the literature since the original publication of Putnam’s “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’.” The puzzle can be formulated, for a certain characteristic case, along the following lines. There are very strong intuitions in support of a thesis that Putnam has explicitly endorsed, namely, the thesis: The extension of the word ‘gold’, as we use it now, is the same as the extension of ‘gold’, as it was used in 1650 (before the rise of molecular chemistry). However, strong convictions about language use and truth conditions also incline us to the view that the extension of a term, as it is used at a time t, is determined by facts about the use of the term in the language at or before t, together with the facts about the various items to which the term prospectively applied. This paper looks at the various issues involved regarding these matters | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,672 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesJohn L. Koethe (1992). And They Ain't Outside the Head Either. Synthese 90 (1):27-53.
Eddy M. Zemach (1976). Putnam's Theory on the Reference of Substance Terms. Journal of Philosophy 73 (March):116-27.
Steven Gross (2009). Review of Stewart Shapiro, Vagueness in Context. [REVIEW] Philosophical Review 118 (2):261-266.
John Campbell (1982). Extension and Psychic State: Twin Earth Revisited. Philosophical Studies 42 (June):67-90.
Ned Block (1995). Ruritania Revisited. Philosophical Issues 6:171-187.
John M. Collins (2006). Temporal Externalism, Natural Kind Terms, and Scientifically Ignorant Communities. Philosophical Papers 35 (1):55-68.
Aurelio Perez Fustegueras (1996). Sobre Semantica de Los Terminos de Genero Natural (on the Semantics of Natural-Kind Words). Theoria 11 (1):143-159.
Aurelio Perez Fustegueras (1996). Sobre semantica de los terminos de genero natural (On the Semantics of Natural-kind Words). Theoria 11 (1):143-159.
Timothy Pritchard (2012). Meaning, Signification, and Suggestion: Berkeley on General Words. History of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (3):301-317.
Sven Rosenkranz (2011). Objective Content. Erkenntnis 74 (2):177-206.
I. L. Humberstone (1997). Two Types of Circularity. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (2):249-280.
Peter Carruthers (2002). The Cognitive Functions of Language. Behavioral And Brain Sciences 25 (6):657-674.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-01-09Total downloads5 ( #160,283 of 549,068 )Recent downloads (6 months)2 ( #37,252 of 549,068 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
