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Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them$
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R. M. Sainsbury and Michael Tye

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780199695317

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695317.001.0001

The Originalist Theory Defended and Elaborated

Chapter:
(p. 58 ) 4 The Originalist Theory Defended and Elaborated
Source:
Seven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them
Author(s):

R. M. Sainsbury

Michael Tye

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695317.003.0004

The originalist theory is developed further, and the notion of concept-using practices developed. There is a discussion of how the theory handles Mates cases, and how these cases pose difficulties for Fregeans.

Keywords:   words, Mates cases, continuants, fission and fusion, understanding, grasping, Fodor, Millikan

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