Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 184
Phenomenology/Hintikka: one can say that phenomenology is actually a study of meanings and significance.
Meaning/Husserl/Hintikka: thesis: all meaning is ultimately expressed as linguistic meaning.
Def Meaning/Hintikka: meaning is the function of possible worlds on extensions.
Worlds: worlds are the arguments of functions that are meanings.
Intentionality/Hintikka: if intentionality is to be defined by the necessity of explaining it through possible worlds, we must examine possible counterexamples.
II 203
Meaning/Hintikka: if meanings are something that people can grasp and deal with, they cannot be invariant with regard to logical equivalence.
Logical Equivalence/Hintikka: logical equivalence is not computable (not effective, not decidable).
>Equivalence, >Decidability.
Therefore, the identity of meaning ((s) synonymy) cannot go along with equivalence, for then we cannot always know whether two sentences denote the same.
>Synonymy, >Denotation.
Solution/Hintikka: the best solution would be if we restrict the concept of meaning, which can be grasped by humans, by "almost invariant worlds" (e.g. an urn model, in which balls are not returned, but it is not always recognizable that none are returned).
Meaning/Hintikka: meaning is therefore intentional because of the failure of logical equivalence.
>Intentionality/Hintikka.