Email this article CONTEXTUALITY IN KAPLAN’S AND KATZ’S SEMANTICS
- Authors: Borisov E.V.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Tomsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Tomsk State University
- Issue: No 3 (2022)
- Pages: 111-117
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2312-7899/article/view/269539
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.23951/2312-7899-2022-3-111-117
- ID: 269539
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Abstract
Semantic theories by Kaplan and Katz represent a view on ordinary language opposed to the view of the late Wittgenstein, Strawson, and others. Both Kaplan’s and Katz’s theories accommodate phenomena of contextuality, whereas Wittgenstein and Strawson held that contextuality makes a semantic theory for ordinary language impossible. I compare the two theories and show that both are based on analogous fourfold distinctions. In Kaplan, it is the distinction of expression, character, content, and reference. The analogous distinction in Katz is the distinction of expression, the sense of expression-type, the sense of expression-token, and reference. The analogy between Kaplan’s character and Katz’s sense of expression-type is established by the fact that both are, formally speaking, functions from contexts. Content (Kaplan) and the sense of expression-token (Katz) are similar in that both determine reference (extension) with respect to a possible world. So we can conclude that both theories represent the same approach to contextuality.
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Evgeny Vasilyevich Borisov
Tomsk Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Tomsk State University
Email: borisov.evgeny@gmail.com
36 Lenin Ave., Tomsk, Russia 634050; 10/4 av. Akademichesky, Tomsk, Russia 634055
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