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The Place of Relations in Hieronymus Pardo's Semantics of Propositions.
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British Journal for the History of Philosophy . May2016, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p512-531. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- I examine a sixteenth-century development of the anti-realist propositional semantics which is based on the notion of ‘mode’. Pardo uses this notion to offer a personal interpretation of the Buridanian criticism ofcomplexe significabilia. He develops a middle way between the reduction of the significate of propositions to particular things and the postulation of non-standard entities which are only complexly signifiable. The key to this middle way is Pardo's understanding of the notion of ‘mode’ as connoting a relation between individual things. He offers a new interpretation of the signification of syncategorematic terms, and a definition of ‘comparative’ notions, by which something is known ‘relatively’ with respect to some other thing. And a real relational correlate is postulated for these relational ways of knowing. Relations are thus used to grant a specific significate of propositions, without renouncing the strict Buridanian rejection of any extra-categorialcomplexe significabilia. The role of relations in Pardo's propositional semantics consists in allowing a new (intensional) understanding of the significate of propositions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- *RELATION (Philosophy)
*SEMANTICS
*LANGUAGE & languages
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09608788
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- British Journal for the History of Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116100012
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2015.1078772