Anti-realism and speaker knowledge |
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Authors: | Dorit Bar-On |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 3125 Caldwell Hall, 27599 Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
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Abstract: | Dummettian anti-realism repudiates the realist's notion of verification-transcendent truth. Perhaps the most crucial element in the Dummettian attack on realist truth is the critique of so-called realist semantics, which assigns verification-transcendent truth-conditions as the meanings of (some) sentences. The Dummettian critique charges that realist semantics cannot serve as an adequate theory of meaning for a natural language, and that, consequently, the realist conception of truth must be rejected as well. In arguing for this, Dummett and his followers have appealed to a certain conception of linguistic knowledge. This paper examines closely the appeal to speakers' knowledge of linguistic meaning, its force and limitations. |
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