Donald Davidson
Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality
Lepore, Ernie Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Ludwig, Kirk Department of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville
Print publication date: 2005 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925134-6
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0007
Ernie Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Discusses the extensionality and determination problems for truth-theoretic semantics. The extensionality problem is how to impose a constraint on a truth theory that guarantees that it meets Tarski’s Convention T. The determination problem is the problem of specifying for a theory that meets Tarski’s Convention T which theorems can be used to interpret the sentences of the object language. Argues that nothing the theory states can solve the extensionality problem, but that one can state a condition on the theory that will solve the problem, and that the determination problem can be solved by specifying a canonical proof procedure for the theory.
Keywords: canonical proof, intensional contexts, determination problem, extensionality problem,
doi:10.1093/0199251347.003.0007
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Part 1 Historical Introduction to Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Part II Radical Interpretation
Part III Metaphysics and Epistemology