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13.5.15

Colloquium Logicae: Prof. Stefano Predelli

Meaning Without Truth

Stefano Predelli (da Universidade de Nottingham) apresentará as principais ideias e resultados de seu recente livro "Meaning Without Truth" (Oxford UP 2013). Trata-se de uma interessante tentativa de tratar de forma rigorosa e sistemática aspectos do significado que não são capturáveis na semântica verifuncional (estendendo de algumas formas relevantes a semântica de Kaplan em termos de caráter e conteúdo). Teremos também como comentadora Eleonora Orlando (da Universidad de Buenos Aires).

Três sessões. Sala Kurt Gödel, CLE-UNICAMP.
25 de maio (segunda-feira), 16h: Meaning Without Truth I
27 de maio (quarta-feira), 16h: Meaning Without Truth II
3 de junho (quarta-feira), 14h: Meaning Without Truth III

9.5.15

06/05 - Marco Ruffino

A Puzzle About Frege’s Singular Senses

In this paper I discuss what seems to be a puzzle for Frege’s notion of singular senses (i.e., the senses of singular terms) assuming the interpretation that, for him, every singular term is reducible to (or express the same sense as) some definite description. Singular senses are supposed to be complete (or saturated), but they are composed of the incomplete (unsaturated) senses of the concept-words of the descriptions. I ask how the definite article (or what it expresses) “transforms” an unsaturated sense into a saturated one, and review some attempted explanations in the literature. I argue that none of them is compatible with Frege’s broader views in semantics. Next I discuss one alternative that Frege himself endorses (the definite article indicating an attitude on the speaker’s part). This alternative, I argue, is also incompatible with his semantics. I conclude that Frege has no coherent view on singular senses.

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