CONTEXTUALIZING TAUTOLOGIES: FROM RADICAL PRAGMATICS TO MEANING ELIMINATIVISM

• SAKAI TOMOHIRO

  Atomi University

抄録

The purpose of this paper is to show that the linguistic meaning of tautological sentences of the form X is X does not correspond to any propositional content and to propose an analysis based on Contextualism, in particular on Meaning Eliminativism, its most extreme form. On the one hand, the radical-pragmatic assumption, shared even by recent cognitive approaches, that X is X expresses a logical tautology leads to various paradoxes. On the other hand, the radical-semantic view that its interpretations cannot be fully calculated by universal principles suffers from theoretical shortcomings. I will argue that the simple fact that X is X consists of two applications of X to the same object provides the basis for the interpretation of X is X.

収録刊行物

• ENGLISH LINGUISTICS

  ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 29 (1), 38-68, 2012

  日本英語学会

キーワード

• tautology
• linguistic meaning
• Contextualism
• Meaning Eliminativism

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001205501655424
• NII論文ID: 130005001737
• DOI: 10.9793/elsj.29.1_38
• ISSN: 18843107
• ISSN: 09183701
• 本文言語コード: en
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