Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 96
Truth/Bigelow/Pargetter: a sentence is true if
1. the referring terms are somehow related to each other
2. the things described are somehow related to each other
3. there is a general rule (correspondence) that determines how the terms and things should relate to each other.
>Truth, >Reference, >Words, >Names, >Descriptions, >Syntax,
>Grammar, >Objects, >World, >Facts, >Correspondence,
>Representation, >Image, >Picture, >Presentation, >Mapping, >Picture theory.
Semantics/Bigelow/Pargetter: it follows that in semantics there is a fundamental distinction between:
A. Assignment of referents to language terms
B. Determination of the composition rules, which the referents of complex expressions determine from their constituents and their syntactic relations. >Compositionality.
This distinction can be localized in different places. You can accept more things as referents and thus reduce the composition rules.
Semantics: the dominant tendency is to minimize referents.
>Ontology.
I 100
Lambda categorical language/ lambda/rules/Bigelow/Pargetter: such languages have extremely few composition rules.
For this we have more referring symbols.
>Lambda calculus, >Lambda abstraction.
Realism: would describe this as ontologically honest.
>Realism.
Semantics/Bigelow/Pargetter: but the realist does not have to commit to one semantics instead of another. The semantics does not determine ontology.

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