Lewisian Naturalness and a new Sceptical Challenge
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2021.002" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2021.002</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2021.002" target="_blank" >10.12775/LLP.2021.002</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Lewisian Naturalness and a new Sceptical Challenge
Original language description
The criterion of naturalness represents David Lewis’s attempt to answer some of the sceptical arguments in (meta-) semantics by comparing the naturalness of meaning candidates. Recently, the criterion has been challenged by a new sceptical argument. Williams argues that the criterion cannot rule out the candidates which are not permuted versions of an intended interpretation. He presents such a candidate – the arithmetical interpretation (a specific instantiation of The criterion of naturalness represents David Lewis’s attempt to answer some of the sceptical arguments in (meta-) semantics by comparing the naturalness of meaning candidates. Recently, the criterion has been challenged by a new sceptical argument. Williams argues that the criterion cannot rule out the candidates which are not permuted versions of an intended interpretation. He presents such a candidate – the arithmetical interpretation (a specific instantiation of Henkin’s model), and he argues that it opens up the possibility of Pythagorean worlds, i.e. the worlds similar to ours in which the arithmetical interpretation is the best candidate for a semantic theory. The aim of this paper is a) to reconsider the general conditions for the applicability of Lewis’s criterion of naturalness and b) to show that Williams’s new sceptical challenge is based on a problematic assumption that the arithmetical interpretation is independent of fundamental properties and relations. As I show, if the criterion of naturalness is applied properly, it can respond even to the new sceptical challenge.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Logic and logical philosophy
ISSN
1425-3305
e-ISSN
2300-9802
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
3-28
UT code for WoS article
000702791800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147317109