...John Hawthorne Cornell University 2007 Craziness and Metasemantics John Hawthorne Oxford University Consider a crazy interpretation of our utterances that has the virtue of being charitable—most of our utterances come...

... that we have come to a different and more expansive understanding of ‘all sets’ (or ‘all ordinals’ or ‘all cardinals’). But indefinite extensibility is philosophically puzzling: extant accounts are either metasemantically suspect in requiring mysterious mechanisms of domain expansion, or metaphysically...

... practical expressivism accounts for moral disagreement, the role of reason-giving in moral disagreement, and how it captures that supervenience is a conceptual truth. Chapters 5 and 6 lay down the practical expressivists’ metasemantics for complex sentences and subsentential expressions. Chapter 7 explains...

... of language: in virtue of what does a name such as ‘London’ refer to something or a predicate such as ‘is large’ apply to some object? This essay examines one kind of answer to this “metasemantic”1 question: interpretationism, instances of which have been proposed by Donald Davidson, David Lewis...

... interpretation, and first-order normative assumptions. This story is distinguished from extant “reference magnetic” explanations of the phenomenon, and objections and replies are considered. © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 naturalness metaethics metasemantics radical interpretation Some say...

... ways, presemantic or metasemantic, and semantic, that the extension of an expression may depend on empirical facts. We begin 5. Most prominently, in “Assertion,” Syntax and Semantics 9 (1978): 315–32, reprinted in Stalnaker, Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech...

..., and Neutrality .” Erkenntnis 79 : 211 – 31 . Yalcin Seth 2014 . “ Semantics and Metasemantics in the Context of Generative Grammar .” In Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning , edited by Burgess A. and Sherman B. , 17 – 54 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . ...

... it — it's the job of metasemantics to explain how the value of the parameter is determined. If context sensitivity ruins constancy, it matters not what determines the value of a parameter. The last two chapters concern internalist arguments against treating reference (and truth) as the core semantic...

... existential quantifiers. Hirsch (1993, 80) shies away from this, merely claiming that there are multiple possible meanings. 311 BOOK REVIEWS strictly and literally true” (xiii).2 The argument for CS is metasemantic. Hirsch claims that some basic...

... existential quantifiers. Hirsch (1993, 80) shies away from this, merely claiming that there are multiple possible meanings. 311 BOOK REVIEWS strictly and literally true” (xiii).2 The argument for CS is metasemantic. Hirsch claims that some basic...

... existential quantifiers. Hirsch (1993, 80) shies away from this, merely claiming that there are multiple possible meanings. 311 BOOK REVIEWS strictly and literally true” (xiii).2 The argument for CS is metasemantic. Hirsch claims that some basic...

... existential quantifiers. Hirsch (1993, 80) shies away from this, merely claiming that there are multiple possible meanings. 311 BOOK REVIEWS strictly and literally true” (xiii).2 The argument for CS is metasemantic. Hirsch claims that some basic...

... strictly and literally true” (xiii).2 The argument for CS is metasemantic. Hirsch claims that some basic principles of linguistic interpretation—he focuses on the principle of charity—require taking our ordinary commonsense judgments to be true. CS is the main topic of essay six, and it receives...

.... This raises the possibility that our proposal could be part of a new, unified approach to modality. 54 We leave further exploration of this question for future work; the answer will turn on further work on the semantics, metasemantics, and crosslinguistic typology of modals. Is this proposed polysemy...

... in nomologically possible worlds, irrelevant to the truth-values of counterfactuals like (2)–(4). It thereby opens up the possibility of a metasemantics that allows such counterfactuals to be true without needing to give semantic considerations a de jure role in our account of the truth-conditions...

.... But like Lewis, Ichikawa intends his proposal to have “a certain kind of metasemantic generality” (19). Since quantifier domains vary with context, the domain of E-cases will vary with context, too. He prescinds from the “ambitious” task of articulating a set of rules for which possibilities get lassoed...

.... 311 BOOK REVIEWS strictly and literally true” (xiii).2 The argument for CS is metasemantic. Hirsch claims that some basic principles of linguistic interpretation—he focuses on the principle of charity—require taking our ordinary commonsense judgments to be true. CS...

.... The setup here is similar to the moral twin earth cases from Horgan and Timmons, but whereas they were more interested to cause trouble for semantic and metasemantic theories offered by naturalist realists, Eklund wants to cause trouble for the ardent realist (32–37). We don't get a full characterization...

...,” and “makes it the case” idioms as alternative ways of expressing this notion. The question of what grounds a given semantic fact is the central question of what Burgess and Sherman (2014) refer to as “basic metasemantics.” 28. Technically, to draw this conclusion, and to make the comparison...

... less-than relation or rather the one where they are ordered by the pure greater-than relation? Related to this metaphysical worry there is—as Williamson ( 1985 ) pointed out—a metasemantic worry: In virtue of what could our expression “less-than” pick out one of the relations less-than...