MEANING, TRUTH AND ONTOLOGY<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v2i1.10374"><i><b> [doi:10.7443/problemata.v2i1.10374]</i></b></a>

Authors

  • Celso R. Braida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v2i1.10374

Keywords:

significatividade, verdade, entidade, semântica, ontologia

Abstract

The problem addressed here is the relationship between
language and world, whose response since Frege is a semantic theory. The
aim is to uncover the interdependence of concepts like significance, entity
and truth. For this it is make a critical exposition of the compositionalism
and contextualism, and the views of Tarski, Davidson and Dummett. The
thesis is that in these theories the ontology is subsumed to semantics, and
ontological concepts are relativized to a language. The oscillation between
the principles of context and compositionality ends in contextualism and
relativism, just the opposite of the position adopted by Frege and Tarski.
However, contextualism fails to reduce the reference to object to the
remission of expressions to expressions. This suggests a direct relationship
between language and world that was implicit in the semantic tradition.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2011)

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