State-spaces and meaning relations among predicates

✍ Scribed by Frank Arntzenius

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 827 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7411
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00136021

✦ Synopsis

It has often been suggested that the meaning of terms is theory dependent. Bas van Fraassen has proposed a particular way of inferring which sentences are true in virtue of meaning, given a theory in so-called "state-space format". I examine his claims by means of simple examples.