The meaning of meaning-fallibilism

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The meaning of meaning-fallibilism

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Much discussion of meaning by philosophers over the last 300 years has been predicated on a Cartesian first-person authority (i.e. ‘infallibilism’) with respect to what one’s terms mean. However this has problems making sense of the way the meanings of scientific terms develop, an increase in scientific knowledge over and above scientists’ ability to quantify over new entities. Although a recent conspicuous embrace of rigid designation has broken up traditional meaning-infallibilism to some e...

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2005-06

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Legg, Catherine

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/777

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fallibilism / meaning / naturalism / Peirce / pragmatism / realism / semiotics

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