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- Miki Nayuta
- 日本学術振興会; 日本大学・哲学
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- 何かを意味するということ
- ナニ カ オ イミ スル ト イウ コト
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Abstract
What is it for one to mean something by uttering something? This is the problem of "utterer's meaning". In this article, I propose a new approach to this problem, according to which utterer's meaning is based on evidence-relation between utterer's utterance and her belief. This view is contrasted with so far the most influential approach to utterer's meaning, which is called intention-based semantics. Theorists of intention-based semantics hold that utterer's meaning is essentially a kind of her intention. This article consists of three sections. The first section gives an overview of intention-based semantics and the reason why this view is problematic. The second section introduces my approach which I call "belief-evidence semantics". This section also contains a characterization of the concept of evidence in terms of abductive reasoning. The third section is a supplementary one, where an implication of belief-evidence semantics is examined. Belief-evidence semantics, together with Peirce's idea of the continuity between perception and abduction, makes it possible that we sometimes misperceive an utterer's meaning. This happens when, for example, we read a novel, watch a theater performance, or see a robot talking. This article concludes that utterer's meaning is accounted in terms of evidence-relation between uttering and believing, and that this view has several advantages over the traditional intention-based view.
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- 哲學研究
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哲學研究 599 52-72, 2015-04-10
THE KYOTO PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY (The Kyoto Tetsugaku-Kai)
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- CRID
- 1390010765191502464
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- NII Article ID
- 40020511444
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- NII Book ID
- AN00150521
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- HANDLE
- 2433/273931
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- NDL BIB ID
- 026562775
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- ISSN
- 03869563
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- JaLC
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