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The Rule-following paradox and its implications for metaphysics / Jody Azzouni.
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Azzouni, Jody
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English
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
©2017
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viii, 128 pages ; 24 cm.
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BD111 .A99 2017
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Subject(s)
Metaphysics
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Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
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Criticism and interpretation
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Kripke, Saul A. 1940-2022
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Criticism and interpretation
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Series
Synthese library ; v. 382.
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Synthese library ; volume 382
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124) and index.
Contents
General introduction
Kripke's version of Wittgenstein's paradox and his solution
Setting up the problem : three constraints on any solution
Why introspective resources are insufficient for a response to meaning scepticism
How Kripke's three constraints block dispositional approaches
An attempted defense of dispositional approaches to meaning scepticism
The failure of a straight sociological solution to the rule-following paradox
Assertability conditions, not truth conditions
Two versions of Robinson Crusoe
A community of idiolects
Robinson Crusoe in empirically favorable circumstances
A Robinson Crusoe with two sets of dispositions that he has conscious access to
What does "better matching the world" mean to crusoe 2?
Introspection
Last remarks
Reference magnetism
A second family of straight solutions to the rule-following problem : reference-magnetism approaches
Can crusoe use the way things are in the world as standards for his words?
A top-down approach to reference-magnetism : Williams's interpretationalism
Moorean considerations plus the only game in town argument
Concluding remarks
How positive success curves enable private rule following
A robinson crusoe with continuously varying dispositions that he has conscious access to
A Robinson Crusoe with plpci dispositions that he has : at best : inferential access to
Being guided by rules rather than compelled by them
Is it misleading to describe the standards for crusoe 5's words as "external ones"?
Truth and falsity attributions and truth-conditional semantics in private languages
How crusoe 5 speaks of the truth and falsity of his own statements and how he talks about what his words refer to
Truth conditions, bivalence, and the broad ignorance thesis : applied to our own language
Tarski biconditionals and truth-conditional semantics : applied to our own language
Tarski biconditionals and truth-conditional semantics : applied to crusoe 5's language
Some concluding remarks
Correspondence metaphysics and the cogency of a god's eye view
Introduction
Contrastivist and noncontrastivist views of private languages
Is our concept of a god's eye view coherent?
Epistemic modesty
References.
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3319490605
9783319490601
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1004237540
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