Semantics II: Interpretation and Truth

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Of Semantics II.
• 6. Interpretation.
• 1. Kinds of Interpretation.
• 2. Mathematical Interpretation.
• 2.1. Abstract Theory.
• 2.2. Model.
• 2.3. Intensional Models and Extensional Models.
• 2.4. Insufficiency of Extensional Models.
• 3. Factual Interpretation.
• 3.1. The Need for Factual Interpretation in Science.
• 3.2. How Interpretations are Assigned and What They Accomplish.
• 3.3. The Factual Interpretation Maps.
• 3.4. Factual Interpretation: Full and Partial.
• 3.5. Generic Partially Interpreted Theories.
• 3.6. Principles of Factual Interpretation.
• 3.7. Factual Interpretation and Truth.
• 3.8. Interpretation and Exactification.
• 4. Pragmatic Aspects.
• 4.1. Pragmatic Interpretation.
• 4.2. The Interpretation Process.
• 5. Concluding Remarks.
• 7. Meaning.
• 1. Babel.
• 2. The Synthetic View.
• 2.1. Meaning as Sense cum Reference.
• 2.2. Significance.
• 2.3. Significance Assignment.
• 2.4. Degrees of Significance Definiteness.
• 3. Meaning Invariance and Change.
• 3.1. Synonymy.
• 3.2. Meaning Invariance.
• 3.3. Meaning Change.
• 4. Factual and Empirical Meanings.
• 4.1. Definitions.
• 4.2. The Search for Factual Meaning.
• 4.3. Shape and Role of Meaning Assumptions.
• 5. Meaning et alia.
• 5.1. Meaning and Testability.
• 5.2. Meaning and Use.
• 5.3. Meaning and Understanding.
• 5.4. Factual Meaning and Covariance.
• 6. Concluding Remarks.
• 8. Truth.
• 1. Kinds of Truth.
• 1.1. Truth Bearers.
• 1.2. Truth Values: Acquired.
• 1.3. Quadruple Truth.
• 2. Truth of Reason and Truth of Fact.
• 2.1. Truth of Reason.
• 2.2. Truth of Fact: The Synthetic View.
• 2.3. Truth Values: Conditional.
• 2.4. Truth Conditions.
• 3. Degrees of Truth.
• 3.1. The Problem and How to Fail to Solve It.
• 3.2. Axioms.
• 3.3. Topologies of SD.
• 3.4. Comparing Truth Values.
• 3.5. Scientific Inference.
• 3.6. Comments.
• 4. Truth et alia.
• 4.1. Truth and Probability.
• 4.2. Truth, Meaning, and Confirmation.
• 4.3. Truth and Belief.
• 4.4. Truth and Time.
• 5. Closing Remarks.
• 9. Offshoots.
• 1. Extension.
• 1.1. The Problem.
• 1.2. Strict Extension: Definition.
• 1.3. Some Consequences.
• 1.4. Comparing Extensions.
• 1.5. Algebraic Matters.
• 1.6. Extension and Intension: the Inverse Law.
• 1.7. Concluding Remarks.
• 2. Vagueness.
• 2.1. Meaning Vagueness.
• 2.2. Extensional Vagueness.
• 2.3. Structural Indefiniteness.
• 3. Definite Description.
• 3.1. The Received View: Criticism.
• 3.2. An Elementary Analysis of Definite Descriptions.
• 3.3. A Mathematical Analysis of Definite Descriptions.
• 3.4. Continuation of the Analysis.
• 3.5. Meaning Questions.
• 3.6. Truth Questions.
• 3.7. The Real Size of the Theory of Descriptions.
• 10. Neighbors.
• 1. Mathematics.
• 1.1. The Relevance of Semantics to Mathematics.
• 1.2. On Extensionalism.
• 1.3. On Objectivity.
• 2. Logic.
• 2.1. Analyticity.
• 2.2. Definition.
• 2.3. Presupposition.
• 3. Epistemology.
• 3.1. The Status of Epistemology.
• 3.2. Representation vs. Instrument and Picture.
• 3.3. Objectivity vs. Subjectivity.
• 3.4. The Knowing Subject.
• 4. Metaphysics.
• 4.1. The Metaphysical Neutrality of Language.
• 4.2. The Metaphysical Neutrality of Logic.
• 4.3. Metaphysical Commitments of the Semantics of Science.
• 5. Parting Words.
• Index of Names.
• Index of Subjects.