Translational indeterminacy and private worlds

✍ Scribed by Steven Davis

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 488 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8116
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00423123

✦ Synopsis

STUDIES

employed essentially the whole of mathematics (contained in such a metalanguage) merely to develop so essentially simple a theory as the semantical theory of intensions is to have employed too much. The notions of intension are not notions of mathematics and it is an anomaly to have supposed that they were. By 'mathematics' here we mean, barring niceties, the theory of real classes and/or sets. The inadequacy of the treatment in Intension and Decision is to have made too much of real classes rather than to have relied on their virtual counterparts. Here as elsewhere real classes lead us astray; virtual ones, on the other hand, are a sure guide.