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dc.contributor Graduate Program in Philosophy.
dc.contributor.advisor Voss, Stephen,
dc.contributor.author Şişkolar, Cem.
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-16T11:55:05Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-16T11:55:05Z
dc.date.issued 2006.
dc.identifier.other PHIL 2006 S57
dc.identifier.uri http://digitalarchive.boun.edu.tr/handle/123456789/16173
dc.description.abstract According to W.V. Quine his thesis of the indeterminacy of radical inter-linguistic translation applies to the home language as well. This view implies that the usual homophonic understanding of our interlocutors' utterances at home can be replaced by a non-homophonic understanding without the least semantic drawback. In my thesis I will argue that it is possible to accord a semantic superiority to the homophonic understanding at home provided that one adopts an inferentialist account of meaning. I will note that inferentialism with its stress on inferential relations between sentences as a determinant of their meaning enables us to attribute a semantic relevance to the verbal circumstances and sequels of the use of sentences, which is overlooked by Quine except in the case of sentences that contain logical vocabulary. I will then argue that even though attention to the verbal circumstances and sequels of the use of sentences is not sufficient to overrule different but equally acceptable manuals of translation from a radically foreign language into English, it is sufficient to rule out the English-English non-homophonic manual as a manual semantically on a par with the homophonic manual.
dc.format.extent 30cm.
dc.publisher Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006.
dc.subject.lcsh Language and languages -- Philosophy.
dc.subject.lcsh Inference.
dc.title Inferentialism and indeterminacy at home
dc.format.pages x, 64 leaves;


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