{"title":"Remarks on the problem of Sense in a pragmatic reading","authors":"L. Vollet","doi":"10.7213/1980-5934.34.063.ao01","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The division of the problems about Meaning in an extensional and an intensional theory was accused of unnecessarily duplicating the theoretical problems involved in the knowledge of Meaning. The result was either 1. an aggressive rejection of the intensional part of the problem or 2. the adoption of non-classical semantics to account for intensions. This paper suggests a reading of Frege's theory of Meaning that preserves the contribution of the intensional aspect of the question without sacrificing the benefits of the classical insights. For this, however, we need to expand his theory to cases of semantic values which are not directly assertive, that is, what Micheal Dummett called ingredient value. This solution preserves the direct and intuitive insights of classical semantics, expanding it to cases where the designation of truth or falsehood does not have a unified interpretation: speculative, modal, ambiguous, relative cases or cases in which theories disputing Meaning is not straightforwardly mapped to the truth or the not-truth. The paper is a contribution to support the pragmatic interpretation of Frege's legacy by Micheal Dummett.","PeriodicalId":52002,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Filosofia Aurora","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revista de Filosofia Aurora","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.063.ao01","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The division of the problems about Meaning in an extensional and an intensional theory was accused of unnecessarily duplicating the theoretical problems involved in the knowledge of Meaning. The result was either 1. an aggressive rejection of the intensional part of the problem or 2. the adoption of non-classical semantics to account for intensions. This paper suggests a reading of Frege's theory of Meaning that preserves the contribution of the intensional aspect of the question without sacrificing the benefits of the classical insights. For this, however, we need to expand his theory to cases of semantic values which are not directly assertive, that is, what Micheal Dummett called ingredient value. This solution preserves the direct and intuitive insights of classical semantics, expanding it to cases where the designation of truth or falsehood does not have a unified interpretation: speculative, modal, ambiguous, relative cases or cases in which theories disputing Meaning is not straightforwardly mapped to the truth or the not-truth. The paper is a contribution to support the pragmatic interpretation of Frege's legacy by Micheal Dummett.
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The Revista de Filosofia: Aurora (Qualis A2) is a quarterly publication of the Graduate Program in Philosophy of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR). It has published, since 1988, research findings with the purpose of contributing to the training and activity of philosophers and other professionals in related fields. The Revista de Filosofia Aurora (Journal of Philosophy Aurora) publishes scientific articles, reviews, and interviews by adopting the peer review process among members of the editorial board and the specialized scientific community in a double-blind review, i.e., both the names of the reviewers and of the authors are not disclosed. The abbreviated title of the journal is Rev. Filos. Aurora and it is used in bibliographies, references, footnotes, and bibliographic legends.