Lexicon of Arguments

 

Definition satisfaction/Goodman:
"Satisfied" = "is denoted by"
"has as fulfillment object" = "denotes"
"fulfillment class" = extension
>Terminology/Goodman.
III 139 f
Extension/Goodman: the extension of a word is not both its pronunciations and the objects - the extension is always based on a system.
>Extensions.
III 140
Satisfaction/Goodman: satisfaction requires no special agreement; whatever is denoted by a symbol, it fulfills it. In principle, compliance is connected with an inscription. In a given system, many things can fulfill a single inscription, and the class of these things constitutes the fulfillment class of inscriptions in this system.
>Systems.
Of course, the fulfillment class does not normally fulfill the inscription itself - its elements do.
III 141
Inscription/Goodman: we call inscriptions without a satisfaction object "vacant". A vacant inscription belongs as much to the system as any other and it can be just as big and black. It deficit is more semantic, not of syntactic nature. An object which does not fulfill an inscription, has no description in the system.
In Object-English, for example, no object and no set of objects fulfills only one predicate.