真、意义与解释——戴维森意义理论探究

戴维森基于塔斯基的真之理论构造了一种非弗雷格式的意义理论.他放弃了在内涵框架内讨论意义问题,而通过纯外延的方式同时遵循整体论的原则来刻画一种语言的意义.这种做法引来了不少质疑.纯外延的方式与戴维森最初的愿望,即意义理论应该是处理意义而非指称的,是背道而驰的,最终将导致他的意义理论又蜕化为某种意义上的弗雷格式的指称理论.

Truth,Meaning and Explanation——Exploring Davison's theory of meaning

Davison,based on Tarski's theory of truth,composed a kind of meaning theory with non-Frege style.He depicted meanings of a language under the principle of holism,with the method of pure extension,instead of discussing meanings within connotation framework.Such a way incurred a lot of questions.The pure extension goes against Davison's original expectation,that is,a meaning theory should interpret meanings rather than significatio.His thinking finally made his meaning theory degraded to Frege-typed significa...