Semantic holism

ND Belnap, GJ Massey - Studia Logica, 1990 - Springer
… for any semantic indeterminacy in any row in the table of any connective of PC, ie, to remove
it is to jump straight to classical semantics. We show (i) why semantic holism is plausible …

A critique of the case for semantic holism

M Devitt - Philosophical Perspectives, 1993 - JSTOR
… paper I shall look critically at the case for semantic holism. … To complete the case against
semantic holism, we need to … The appeal of semantic holism arises from the failure to situate the …

Semantic holism and language learning

ML Jönsson - Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2014 - Springer
… I later argue that semantic holism is in fact conducive … semantic holism. It might turn out that
my observations could be used in arguments against semantic holism, since semantic holism

Holism, mental and semantic

N Block - 1996 - philpapers.org
… with the claim that confirmation is holistic, we get semantic holism. And this implies that talk
of the … Positivism and confirmation holism are not the only roads to semantic/mental holism. …

Confirmation holism and semantic holism

M Harrell - Synthese, 1996 - Springer
… to argue that the inference from confirmation holism to semantic holism is unsound. Thus, …
two-pronged attack on semantic holism. On the one hand they argue that semantic holism has …

Semantic holism: still a good buy

J Heal - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1994 - JSTOR
… , use 'semantic holism', 'meaning holism' and 'content holism' … Semantic holism, then, as
we shall construe it, has as its … are engaged in then semantic holism is the order of the day. …

Semantic holism vs. semantic atomism

M Silcox - Language & Communication, 2005 - Elsevier
… begins to utter what appears to be the same expression, according to whatever sense of the
concept of linguistic identity we may take to be relevant to the Davidsonian semantic holist (…

Epistemological holism and semantic holism

W Cornwell - 2002 - philpapers.org
holism and conceptual holism. In the first section, I contend that contrary to confirmation
holism… In the second section I argue against functional role semantics / inferential role semantics. …

Holism

C Peacocke - A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… This is why the principles of probability can be justified without appealing to those principles
themselves as partially fixing the semantic values of the logical constants, the anti‐holist will …

Semantic holism in scientific language

H Andreas - Philosophy of Science, 2010 - cambridge.org
… There is thus, in addition to the tension between semantic holism and compositionality, …
compositional semantics of a Tarski-type truth definition. The formal account of semantic holism