Radical Interpretation and Indeterminacy
1st Edition
Published on 28. November 2002
270 pages
978-0-19-803313-4 (ISBN)
Description
McCarthy develops a theory of Radical Interpertation - The project of characterizing from scratch the language and attituteds of an agent or population - and applies the theory to the problems of indeterminacy of interperation first descrided in the writings of Quine. The major theme in McCarthy's study is that a relatively modest set of interpertive principles, properly applied, can serve to resolve the major indeterminacies of interperation. Its most substantive contribution is in proposing a solution to problems of indeterminacy that remain unsloved in the literature.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Prospect
- 1.2 Some Recent History
- 1.3 Conformal Interpretation
- 1.4 Logic and Radical Interpretation
- 1.5 The Limits of Determinacy
- 1.6 Credo
- CHAPTER TWO: RADICAL INTERPRETATION
- 2.1 The Problem
- 2.2 The Minimal Framework
- 2.3 Isomorphism and Indeterminacy
- 2.4 Conformal Explanation and Semantic Content
- 2.5 Conformal Interpretation
- 2.6 Conclusion
- POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER TWO: PROBLEMS OF APPROXIMATE REALIZATION
- A. Introductory Remarks
- B. Kripke's Problem
- C. Turing Machines and Their Realizations
- D. Partial Realization
- E. Indeterminacies of Partial Realization
- F. Other Conditions
- G. Concluding Remarks
- CHAPTER THREE: THE ROOTS OF REFERENCE
- 3.1 Naming and Conformality
- 3.2 Observation Terms
- 3.3 Homogeneous Natural Kind Terms
- 3.4 Grounding the Model
- 3.5 Reference to Inhomogeneous Kinds
- POSTSCRIPT TO CHAPTER THREE: INHOMOGENEOUS KIND TERMS AND MODELS OF VAGUENESS
- A. The Fuzzy Set Model
- B. The Supervaluation Model
- CHAPTER FOUR: THE GROUND OF LOGIC
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Framework 1
- 4.3 Invariance 1
- 4.4 Completeness and Determinacy
- 4.5 Characterizing Alternatives 1
- 4.6 The Bounds of Logic 1
- 4.7 Framework 2
- 4.8 Invariance 2
- 4.10 The Bounds of Logic 2
- 4.11 Endpoint
- POSTSCRIPTS TO CHAPTER FOUR
- A. An Abstract Completeness Property
- B. The Lindenbaum Condition
- INDEX
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
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