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Publication details [#42398]
Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin. 2005. Formal truth and objective reference in an inferentialist setting. Pragmatics & Cognition 13 (1) : 7–37.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/pc
Annotation
The project of developing a pragmatic theory of meaning aims at an anti-metaphysical, therefore anti-representationalist and anti-subjectivist, analysis of truth and reference. In order to understand this project we have to remember the turns or twists given to Frege’s and Wittgenstein’s original idea of inferential semantics (with Kant and Hegel as predecessors) in later developments like formal axiomatic theories (Hilbert, Tarski, Carnap), regularist behaviorism (Quine), mental regulism and interpretationism (Chomsky, Davidson), social behaviorism (Sellars, Millikan), intentionalism (Grice), conventionalism (D. Lewis), justificational theories (Dummett, Lorenzen) and, finally, Brandom’s normative pragmatics.