Original title: Meaning and Inference
Authors: Peregrin, Jaroslav
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Logica 2002, Zahrádky (CZ), 2002-06-18 / 2002-06-21
Year: 2003
Language: eng
Abstract: According to certain semantic theories, the meaning of an expression is, principally, its inferential role. In this paper we first propose an exact definition of the concept of inferential role, and then go on to examine the question whether subscribing to inferentialism necessitates throwing away existing theories of formal semantics, as we know them from logic, or whether these could be somehow accomodated within the inferentialist framework. The conclusion we reach is that it is possible to make an inferentialist sense of even those common semantic theories which are usually considered as incompatible with inferentialism, such as the standard semantics of second-order logic.
Keywords: inferentialist semantics
Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z9009908 (CEP), IAA0009001 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA AV ČR
Host item entry: The Logica Yearbook, ISBN 80-7007-172-9

Institution: Institute of Philosophy AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0038147

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